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‘Someone grabs you and you flinch. It’s Tonkee.

“I don’t know if it’s occurred to you,” she says, hauling you to your feet, “but your child seems like she’s got your temper. So, you know, maybe you shouldn’t get too pushy.”’

Damn Tonkee lol NO chill

“The man who wrote the book was probably crazy, as evidenced by the fact that he apparently loved Nassun’s mother long ago.”

This is so funny to me lol

“In the next instant, the power struck the broken stone, failed to reflect, and began to chew its way through the Moon. Even with this to mitigate the blow, the force of impact was devastating in itself. More than enough to slam the Moon out of orbit.”

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“...It was too much for him, the knowledge that all of this had happened before. That he was the scion of a people abused; that those people’s forebears were, too, in their turn; that the world as he knew it could not function without forcing someone into servitude. At the time he could see no end to the cycle, no way to demand the impossible of society. So he broke, and he ran.”

Me in my anthropology classes

‘“I would estimate,” Steel continues, “that Guardians typically last three or four thousand years. Can you imagine that length of time?”’

Did I miss something in the earlier books bc they live HOW long????

“Threads of silver roam over her body, determining her discomfort by touching her nerves and then repairing her bruises and scrapes; other threads whip the particles of the bed until friction warms them; yet more threads search her skin for infinitesimal dry flakes and flecks of dust, and scrub them away....”

It's like that one futuristic shower in the Sims games

‘“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”’

Go off, Hoa!!

“The briar patch’s victims have been here for years. Decades. There are hundreds of them in view, and thousands more out of sight if the sinkline thicket extends all the way around the amethyst’s base. Millions, when multiplied by two hundred and fifty-six. We cannot see Tetlewha, or the others, but we know that they, too, are here somewhere. Still alive, and yet not.”

The Matrix?

The doctor is just out here fucking a patient

“Some of the feathers are flickering faster than others, clustering together for a moment at a point along the thing’s side. Then the feathers all peel back, flattening against the mother-of-pearl surface, to reveal a soft rectangle of a door. Beyond, Nassun can see gentle light and surprisingly comfortable-looking chairs, in rows. They will ride in style to the other side of the world.”
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