The Missing of Clairdelune (The Mirror Visitor, #2)

by Christelle Dabos

Persephone’s

“Be impressive.” Berenilde laid her velvet-gloved hand on Ophelia’s cheek. “I don’t say that to make you anxious. I say it because you are capable of it, as I have witnessed more than once.”

I love ho she loves her

“If it were just up to me, I would first select the fattest minister, but cannibalism is an illegal practice, even in the Pole.”

Is this a joke because its funny

“If you had any pride, it would be to the disgraced that you would give your protection. Fellows who know true cold and true hunger.”

I love this

I’m currently focusing on the rehabilitation of the disgraced.”

I love him

“You wanted me to be honest with you. You will thus learn that you are not just a pair of hands to me. And I don’t give a damn whether people find me suspect, as long as I am not so in your eyes.

He loves her so much

He came from the City of Babel,

Foreshadowing

Thanks to him, the three long weeks she’d just gone through, banished from society, had been just about bearable.

I love their friendship

The count briefly clenched his ringed fingers around his blue sandglass,

“To a town on the Great Lakes.

Foreshadowing?

There were several years between them, and yet Leonora would soon be taller than her, as her other sisters already were.

Me too :(

but there was an echo.

FORESHADOWING

What I can tell you, returning to the matter at hand, is that our dearest mothers do occasionally receive a visit from a stranger who really is

Never will I forgive her for having caused you harm . . . I am already struggling to forgive myself for it.”

She loves Ophelia

It’s your heart that he really needs, not your hands.”

Asgard,

Ooooooooo

the Hector on the right instantly acquired a spectacular head of hair, grew taller by a few centimeters, and soon resembled Ophelia like a twin. She knew straight away that she was dealing with Milliface, a prodigious Metamorphoser.

I know who this is!!!

“It must be an echo,”

Foreshadow

he was there as a killjoy.

Oof

Why are you detestable?”

Lmfao i love kids

“Come back with us.”

Ughhgv

They are castles, in the main, almost all of excellent construction. Three of them are to be found in Citaceleste, and I have designated one for your daughter, as a wedding present.”

I want a castle as a wedding present

Instead, he placed his mouth on hers.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

“Okay, lung yady . . . young lady?

This is the milliface guy

Ophelia wasn’t about to forget that face; she probably owed her life to it.

Thus is manipulation

And what if it wasn’t Vladislava who was in their midst right now?

He smoothed his moustache, looking relieved, as if Thorn had just told him he no longer had to fear for his own life.

SUS

They’d all received threatening letters. The writer had used them very effectively to put pressure on his victims: the more anxious they were, the stronger their desire to pull the pin on the blue sandglasses. It was a truly malicious manipulation.

“If you knew him privately, you’d know he’s an avid puller of the pin. Those most fiercely opposed to a temptation are sometimes its greatest adepts.”

Bro hes revealing his hand

For your information, you have fourteen spent bulbs, twenty-three beds that aren’t perfectly aligned with the rest of their row, and I find it absurd that there is a different number of steps between each landing of your stairway.”

Bro hes so autistic

“A lot has happened to me since you made me your fiancée. I’ve received an unbelievable number of death threats, and almost as many indecent proposals. I’ve been imprisoned, disguised, tricked, insulted, enslaved, infantilized, booed, subjected to hypnotic manipulation, and I’ve seen my aunt losing her mind, before my very eyes. And yet, I’ve never been as afraid as I am right now. I’m afraid for my family, I’m afraid for myself, I’m afraid for Berenilde, I’m afraid for Archibald, too. And for all of that, Thorn, it’s you I have to thank. So could you, please, stop speaking to me as if I were the cause of all your problems?”

GO OFF QUEEN

I will be away only as long as is strictly necessary.”

He loves his aunt so much

THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF PRINCE FAROUK

Awe

If there was a future to which she was ready to commit herself, that was certainly it.

We love berenilde

there. Despite all his negligence and his appalling memory, his instinct had told him to come here.

I truly believes he loves her

“I’m angry with myself because I had the conceit to think for one moment that you wouldn’t do so. You were very clear, message received. Pointless to go back to that episode, too.”

Ugh

The cry of a baby. The cry of life.

The baby!!!!!!!!!!

“Which of them put you in that state?” he asked Ophelia.

GOD FUCK ME

“Your queer fish strikes me as also being a serious sympathizer, in his own way, no? Just for that, I will help you to help him.”

Awwwww

It wasn’t Thorn who needed her. It was she who needed Thorn. Ophelia plunged, body and soul, into the mirror.

Ugh my heart

Thorn had wrapped his arms around her with a vehemence that took her breath away.

At that second, she finally knew with absolute certainty where her place was. It wasn’t in the Pole, it wasn’t on Anima. It was precisely where she was now. At Thorn’s side.

My fucking heart

“Try your dears.”

Thorn swallowed against her shoulder. “Oh, and by the way, I love you.”

Ughgghgghhgh this gets me every time

“If you don’t come back soon to the Pole, the Pole will come to you, ambassador’s honor!”