Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)
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“Annabel will not be at peace,” said Malcolm. His purple eyes looked like bruises in his pale face. “Not without me.”
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“I will wait,” Malcolm said again, speaking perhaps more to himself than to her. “I will wait as long as it takes.”
Mya McCoy
Has he… kidnapped them?
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Cherry brandy.
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Tell her the truth, take her kindness and her pity and let it chain her to him.
Mya McCoy
Men are so dumb
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Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved [Estella] against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it. —Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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She had underestimated Eugenia, Ariadne thought. She would make an excellent spy.
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These bodies did not decay, but remained intact, and were preserved in the Iron Tombs, a place forbidden to most Shadowhunters.
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Jesse looked at the sky. James said, in some surprise, “Do you mind?” “It’s not that,” Jesse said. “I was only going to say—you might as well look through my house, because I’ve been in all of yours.”
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“Yes.” The woman smiled at that, a peculiar, unsettling smile that seemed to stretch across half her face. “A Silent Brother. I would very much like to see him when he comes.”
Mya McCoy
I don't trust this bitch, not one bit.
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“But I’m afraid your mother is not a very good person.”
Mya McCoy
Christopher reminds me so much of Tyberius, but more loveable lol
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“Esme,” James said, “that family tree is going to be very inaccurate if this is the way you’re going about things.” Looking highly offended, Esme sniffed. “Not at all,” she said. “You’ll see.”
Mya McCoy
Lol, is this cassie’s way of reminding us the family tree is wrong?
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The world shrank down to only Ari: her hands, her eyes, her smile. Nothing else mattered.
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“I can wait for you to change your mind.” Matthew sounded as if he were drowning.
Mya McCoy
Gahh this is so painful
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Only be sure you can bear such scrutiny of your every action. Most men could not.”
Mya McCoy
puurr go off, queen
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“If it were not for you, my Daisy, I would have belonged to Belial long ago. For
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there is no one else in this world, my most beautiful, maddening, adorable wife, that I could ever have loved half as much as I have loved you. My heart beats for you,” he said. “Only ever you.”
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“A mistake anyone could make,” said Jesse.
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Not even a Silent Brother? What does that mean?
Mya McCoy
they opened the iron tomes grace, keep up
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“Whomever it was that I loved,” Rupert said, “that woman is gone now. It seems she has been gone for years. Tatiana Blackthorn, I renounce you. I renounce any feeling that I ever had for one who bore your name.” He gazed at her impassively. “You are nothing to me.”
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Mya McCoy
why wasn’t she more involved with the merry thieves?? Especially after barbara?
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Ever since Bridget had recovered from her injury at Westminster, she had been wildly active in the kitchen: in fact, she’d seemed to have more energy than ever. The gray threads had disappeared from her head; Will had remarked that it was as if she were aging backward. Even her songs had become more frequent, and more gruesome.
Mya McCoy
That explains why she’s still alive in the dark artifices
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“When we are home?” said James softly. “Here we are, with all those we love, and those who love us. We are home.”