#lumatereedit

[elizabethbcnnet]

“Do you love me?’ Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.’ And she replies, ‘No need to wait,”

[bluesganseys]

“Land?” Froi whispered. “You’re giving them land? I’m not worth the valley.” “You’re worth a kingdom,” Finnikin said.

[mydarlinginej]

“ and he would hold her fiercely and never let her go. “

finnikin of the rock by melina marchetta

[evamohns]

‘because i remembered your words,’ she said quietly. ‘i remembered that you liked me least. you said it in my palace chamber. ‘have one of the others wake me, for i like you least’.’

[mydarlinginej]

marchetta week → day 5: favorite prologue

this is the story, as told to those not born to see such days, recorded in the book of lumatere so they will never forget. -finnikin of the rock

[elizabethbcnnet]

“Our bodies aren’t strangers,’ he said, his voice ragged. ‘Our spirits aren’t strangers’. He held her face in his hands. ‘Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I’ll destroy that part of me.”

[elizabethbcnnet]

“A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.”

[chorelle]

who run the world? queen isaboe of lumatere

“Oh, that leaders of kingdoms should feel the pain of every one of their citizens who they send out to fight their wars. Put me out of my misery now, rather than allow me to feel the deaths of my people fighting for such a truth to be known.”