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August 20 - August 22, 2018
Old sins cast long shadows
Angel bless his oblivious soul,
Friends who were easy to get might be easy to lose, and Matthew wanted to keep people.
The only things Matthew could find to like about Alastair were his extraordinarily expressive eyebrows, and eyebrows did not make the man.
“Certainly our families are friends,” said Matthew. “Are you unfamiliar with the concept of friendship, Carstairs? How tragic for you, though understandable on the part of everyone else in the universe.”
“Are you going to see him? If Uncle Will finds out you were in London and did not come to call, and I knew about it, that will be curtains for me! Young life cut off in its prime.
Magnus Bane would be a good friend for anyone to have,
Matthew stopped and laughed for sheer joy at a warlock woman with blue skin who was juggling toy unicorns, mermaids’ shells, and small wheels on fire, and he flirted until she told him her name was Catarina.
“You might be pitiless one day, for all that.”
They sell heartbreak as well as dreams.
Bad news comes like rain and good news like lightning, barely seen before a crash.”
Will has always been my favorite too, Jem agreed solemnly.
taught to expect love and walk fearless through shadows, would be shocked and betrayed by disaster. Some of them might be broken.
Pray disaster never came.
“You may be a waste of space in a waistcoat,” he told Matthew Fairchild, “but at least your waistcoat is fantastic.”
my Herondales,”
Lucie dimpled. “Devastating.” “What Lucie said,” James agreed peacefully.
“You are, as always, perfect,”
Alastair Loathly Worm Carstairs’s
He could not find himself in them, but he saw James in them, and that was enough.
Christopher blinked said eyes, the improbable shade of violets in summer, and smiled his slow-blossoming smile.
Alastair God-Help-Us Carstairs
Welcome all, who lead or follow, To the Oracle of Apollo All his answers are divine, Truth itself doth flow in wine.
“You sly dog! Do I know her?”
you dark horse,”
Come to me, Jamie, that we might share a manly embrace.” He made incursions upon Jamie’s person. James thwacked him over the head with his book. It was a large book.
“What absolute bosh,” said Matthew.
I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made.