Finale (Caraval, #3)

by Stephanie Garber

‘No.’ His answer was unyielding and immediate. ‘That’s not why I want to do this. I want you to be immortal so that you won’t die.’ ‘But I don’t want your immortality, Legend. I want your love.’

‘But I don’t want to feel differently. I want to feel love in its every form. I used to be so scared of it, but now I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren’t supposed to exist, it’s infinitely valuable. I can’t imagine my life without it. And if you felt any love in your heart, you would understand.’

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‘I don’t need to think about it. Sometimes you just know. And I know that I can’t imagine spending an eternity with someone who will never love me.’

‘I was talking about having fun, not moving in with murderers!’

‘I’m going to come back to you,’

‘When I met a girl who loved her sister so much she was able to wish her back to life. You might possess magic, but love like that is real power.’

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‘I don’t know if you’re my true love, Donatella. All I know is that I want you to be.’

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‘I know what I did was wrong. But if you’re looking for a sad story where I justify what I’ve done, you’re not going to find it. I’m the villain, even in my own story. But you were supposed to play a different role.’ Misery filled his eyes. ‘You were supposed to be my true love. You were supposed to want me, not him. You were supposed to be as obsessed with me as I am with you.’

‘You might not if you let me change you.’ His low voice was barely a whisper. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them, he looked more like the shadow painted on his wall than the Legend she loved. ‘You should go. I’m not selfless or altruistic. I always find a way to get the things that I want. Right now, I’m only able to do this because no one has ever looked at me the way you did when you said those words just now and – you deserve to have someone who will look at you that way. You deserve someone who can love you, someone really worth living for, rather than an immortal who only wants to possess you.’

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She looked the way Love might have looked if Love looked in a mirror, infectiously happy and radiantly beautiful.

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She cried for the horrors he had been, and she cried for the wonders that he could have been instead.