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“Nonetheless, understand that I envy you more than I have ever envied anyone, and that I look upon your birth as a blessing.”

hmmm im sad actually

“You prepared to die with the Locked Tomb on your lips. But your idiot dying mouth rounded out three totally different syllables, and they were three syllables you did not even understand.”

what a crazy way to start a book

that time again. sorry

“Like, at the end of everything, if it was going to be you and me, layered over each other as we always were. A final blurring of the edges between us, like water spilt over ink outlines. Melted steel. Mingled blood. Harrowhark-and-Gideon, Gideon-and-Harrowhark at last.”

as we always were

“It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall.”

probably my favorite quote in the whole book

“Whenever you’re ready,” I said. “Don’t worry, honey. I’ll keep the home fires burning.”

actually kinda crazy how good this book is. like this whole series but man sometimes you just gotta be in awe of the craft

you just got GIDEONED!

“I like to think that she would like you. You’d make a hell of a daughter, Harrowhark. I sometimes indulge in the wish that you’d been mine.”

third time reading this and that line finally hit me HARD 😭

although i think this entire series is better on a reread where you can really piece things together i Do wish i could experience the old people threesome for the first time again

“You were so afraid she might touch you. You were so afraid anyone might touch you. You had always been so afraid of anyone touching you, you had not known your longing flinch was so obvious to those who tried it.”