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“The honor of taking Zosia apart was reserved solely for Marynka.”

*wink*
*wink* *wink*
Sorry, this is ya. I’ll behave.
;)

Them: *steamy make out*
Marynka: “Don’t. . .” she managed to get out, trying to catch her breath. “Don’t think this means I like you.”


“It was as though even this was a competition, as though neither of them could bear to be outdone, undone, by the other, as if Zosia were trying to prove she was so much better at this, too.”

U n d o n e

“What do you say, Zosia? A truce? Why don’t we each retrieve our fool and go our way.”
(…)
“My fool’s a monster. She doesn’t die so easily.”
“And mine’s a stubborn traitor,” Józef said. “Believe me, he’ll cling to life just to spite you.”

(…) “As if the witch who had ruled the hours between sunrise and noon was taking all the warmth of day with her.”

Not Jasinska mixing up her own characters

“She caught the saber with both hands, blood ribboning down her palms, and drove the blade into her own chest.”

Respect 🫡
This better not be a bury your gays trope tho

“How nice to know that even in the midst of all this she could still bring a little sunshine, a little romance, into other people’s lives. How terribly kind of her. Really, they owed her a thank-you.”

She’s right and she’s funny.
I’d say to inform the misogynists but they would just gaslight the messenger

“You don’t notice the bars of the cage,” Beata said, “unless you start to throw yourself against them. Surviving is a choice too.”

“The only person Grandmother didn’t protect Marynka from was Grandmother herself.”

~narcissists~
gotta love ‘em.
no, really. they’ll punish you if you don’t.

“No one warned me it would hurt more to lose a friend than a lover. Lovers I can easily replace. But so much of my life has involved Kajetan, ever since we started at the Royal Cadet School together. He’s always been there. A constant presence. I don’t know how to move forward without him by my side. I don’t know who could ever understand me like he did.”

Put it together, Kosia. I believe in you.

“I am finished proving myself to the person who made me feel worthless in the first place.”

AS HE SHOULD