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HEYYY PHATI SARIIIII I WATCHED A DESI DRAMA AFTER A LOOONG TIME AND I MUST RECCOMMEND IT BECAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT. KABHI MAIN KABHI TUM!!!!!

Hello!

I read a little on it, and I'm in too much of a "I hate men" mood to check it out right now, but I have written it down to consider when I feel like men might not be entirely useless :)

But other folks might enjoy it -- thanks for the recommendation!

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“Part of me feared, before that night. That I was a fool for wanting to know you. For seeing you in everything, everywhere I turned,” he said. “I thought it was a sentence. A haunting. Until I realized it was a gift to be haunted by you.”

The mask falling, Samantha Shannon

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THIS IS AN OVERTURE

"you are the music of my soul"

the bone season - the mask falling - the dark mirror by samantha shannon

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I need them to kiss please thank you

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favourite 2017 books:

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.

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Antoinette Carter is a good example of how class can outweigh other kinds of solidarity.

She and Paige are both Irish, and both survived the Molly Riots. They should be able to bond over their heritage and shared trauma.

But Carter was a celebrity, and is rich, and Jaxon Hall is also rich.

So instead of Carter siding with Paige, who is standing for a good cause and with whom she shares much in common, she chooses the man who spent years abusing Paige, manipulating Paige, and was hoping to eventually brainwash Paige into his idea of a perfect servant and killer. Carter sided with the man who sold voyants to Scion over the woman who stopped the trafficking because Jaxon Hall is rich and established and Paige is not. She claimed legal sovereignity for her Council over Paige because Paige should "obey the Council's laws by instinct" even though she's never heard of them before. She paints Paige as an angry common criminal and Jaxon as the sophisticated intellectual because that is the line that Jaxon Hall is selling and Carter want to buy it because it fits in with her idea of the world. And even after Jaxon's lies are exposed, she still sides with him over Paige.

Even Carter's archangel is a tidy metaphor for inherited wealth: one of her ancestors did something, and as a result of this and through no work of her own, she will spend her entire life with a literal magic shield protecting her.

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Paige did not know the story of La Belle et la Bete, but Arcturus didn't know that she didn't know which means that Paige handed Arcturus a love story between a human woman and an inhuman man, told him she thought he'd like some reading material... and he still thought she was no longer into him.

Arcturus. Bestie.

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And I stand by that

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if jaxon hall has a million haters i am one of them. if jaxon hall has ten haters i am one of them. if jaxon hall has only four haters then i am dead and it's just paige, nick, maria, and didion waite holding down the fort

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"I want you" I breathed the words against his mouth "I want all of you"

"Good" he looked me in the eyes "i owe you a duet"

KICKING SCREAMING THROWING UP

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samantha shannon youre so sick and twisted i love you 5 more books please

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Paige permanently exhausted as she tries to balance the demands of working as Jaxon's mollisher with going behind his back to help the survivors of Oxford. Across London, Arcturus Mesarthim is typing "human courtship rituals" into an internet search engine with a level of focus usually reserved for quantum mechanics calculations

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“Whatever part of my existence you have touched,” Arcturus said, “is the best of me, Paige Mahoney.” ♥️

- The Dark Mirror, Samantha Shannon

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samantha shannon writing the bone season series

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‘If you are willing to commit to me – if you grant me the privilege of your trust – then in return, I offer myself as your steadfast companion, who faces all things at your side. I will honour you in body and spirit. You will be my highest calling. Neither of us has a home, but as long as you want me, I will do all I can to be your harbour.’

The Dark Mirror, Samantha Shannon

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James and Lily Potter did everything young.

Lily, clever as she was, spoke her first words at just seven months, and James, a very different sort of clever, had learnt to talk back as early as one. Lily was riding a bike – without training wheels, mind you – before her fourth birthday, and James was on a broom almost as soon as he could walk. When she was five, Lily Evans received her first award; the very same year that James Potter broke his first bone. She had mastered the entire fourth year Charms catalogue (and some of the fifth) before the age of thirteen, and he had scored more goals on the Quidditch pitch than any second year in recorded history. In their fifth year, Lily made Prefect, and James Captain. In their seventh, they were Head Boy and Girl. He fell in love at fifteen, she at seventeen, and the two were married – quickly for her, finally for him – at just nineteen. It was no surprise then, that at only twenty years of age, Lily gave birth to their first child; a beautiful baby boy with his hair and her eyes.

James and Lily Potter did everything young.

And so it was that, in spite of everything they had done, and everything they could have been, death should come for them young, as well. 

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You’re not a freak. Yeah, I am.