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Ekaterin: miles is nosy, arrogant, elusive, and an ass. In short, infuriating.
Also Ekaterin: why is lord vorkosigan not married? Does he have lots of lovers? Is he courting anyone? Why aren’t most people in love with him? Isn’t he objectively alluring? And brilliant? And, technically, hot??
Phew, so that was the first week of qtappreciation that I’ve ever participated in and it’s been so much fun!!
Unfortunately I think that’s all I can manage for certain right now, as I’m feeling a little burnt out (but in a good way, like “wow, that was a Project!”). It’s kind of funny that despite all my intentions to take it easy this week, I let almost all of my posts get away from me a bit, I just couldn’t help myself 🤷♀️
(I MIGHT pop back in for one of the days. Think of this as a moon promise—however you interpret those.)
List of Quotes That Hit Harder While Reading RotT Out Loud (be warned, sadness ahead)
- “I do remember Philologos, though, for his kindness.”
- “Unwilling to let him go, she dropped as well, velvet and silk robes billowing all around as they sank to the ground together.”
- “...war should not be made beautiful to look at.”
- “...ludicrously, the king of Attolia and the king of Sounis, still without releasing each other, twisted to look at me where I stood with tears running down my face.’”
- “ ‘Shall I cut out that lying tongue so you never use it again?’”
- “I only cared that the king hated me. I reached for him and he kicked me away.”
- “ ‘They were born beautiful and mistake being beautiful for being good.””
- “ ‘I cannot lose Irene. I cannot lose you and I cannot lose Sophos. Rid yourself of this notion that I alone am indispensable.’”
- “...only one in ten of the men who marched north could be expected to return.”
- “Her voice was only slightly ragged. ‘Have you considered, Gen, even once, that you might achieve your goals with the minimum damage to yourself and without the maximum amount of distress to those around you?’”
- “ ‘You have to trust yourself,’ she said finally. -- ‘I don’t know if I can.’ -- ‘Then you’ll have to trust us.’”
- “It had been a long, miserable day. The king might have been angry. Instead, he smiled and kissed her gently.”
- “ ‘He should have been making watches,’ said the king, holding the delicate green-and-gold timepiece Stenides had made him, opening the case and squeezing it closed again with a tight, precise snap, shrugging up one shoulder to wipe away his tears.”
- “ ‘All wars make men monsters, all wars and all men.’”
- “This time, the king did not bear the pain in silence.”
- “ ‘No, don’t tell him,’ he said. ‘...no more of that now.’ -- It was the last thing he said.”
- “ ‘And who is he now?’ Attolia cried, and Eddis took the stricken queen in her arms, pulling her close to comfort her.”
- “ ‘I say it three times, Fordad. It will be so. It will be so. It will be so.’”
- “It doesn’t change your responsibility for killing all the men that I might have become.”
- “I would never have expected that ... losing Relius, I would think of all the words I’d written with such care in the journals he’d given me, words that he would never read if he was dead--and that my first tears for him would be tears of rage.”
- “...my secret, most monstrous self whispered, ‘Better him than me. Better that Erondites than this one.’”
- “We are liars, all the Erondites.”
- “No messenger even to tell the fate of the defenders, most of them Eddis’s uncles and cousin, her high king, her Thief.”
- “...she moved from man to man, crouching over them, shaking them, saying, ‘Wake up, wake up.’”
- “As I watched, the king woke and saw his father and remembered that his father was dead.”
- “ ‘I saw my father fall. I was too far away.’”
- “Break this pot first.”
- “ ‘We never know, Pheris,’ said the king. ‘Decide anyway. For me.’ That made it easier. For him, it was obvious.’”
- “ ‘Where the king gives his heart, he gives it completely.’”
- “ ‘He is free to come home whenever he chooses. He might not, though,’ the king warned gently. ‘He’s very happy there.’ -- ‘He is?’ Sejanus asked, his voice thready.”
- “ ‘Pheris, how foolish,’ said Moira, ‘to think that means you cannot dance.’”
“Sounis wondered. He would have given Eugenides his heart on a toothpick, if asked.”
-A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner
“So small, so wrecked, so obnoxious. So incandescent. Give the people a light, and they’ll follow it anywhere. Did Miles know how dangerous he was?”
-A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Same energy.
Updating a friend who doesn’t know queen’s thief on my progress through a book they recommended to me like
“Haha this scene remind me of a quote in my favorite book series” “OMG this character reminds me of this other character” “yes! Unreliable narrators! I love to see it! Especially when it’s done really subtly yet intentionally, like this other b
Just wanted to let y’all know that I get 90% of my daily joy from reading the tags
Like honest to god, thank you 🥺🥰
My internet server: oh sorry 😢 you can’t post your art bc you need to update your server 🤷♀️
Me: fine I’ll do that then
My computer: sorry 😞 you’re not allowed to update it 🚫 your version of Mac is too old 🤷♀️
Me: ok fine, I’ll update my computer so that I can share art
My tablet: oh sorry 😢 this tablet driver is not compatible with Mac OS 284738263ajshdjsjdb 😱 maybe stop making art? 🤷♀️
Me: *SCREAMS*
I almost cried-laughed during the dinner scene in A Civil Campaign. What a delightful, painfully embarrassing disaster
