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“It smelled like paradise. Like home and eternity and like exactly where he was meant to be.”

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Hunt and Bryce are everything <33

Rereading this in prep for House of Sky and Breath our next month !

“I forgive them. I’ve always forgiven them.
It’s myself I’ve been hard on. But I think I’ve reached the point that forgiving myself finally feels okay.
So I do.
You’re forgiven, Kenna.”

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chapter 33.

“It is what it is. A fucked-up situation, with no evil people to blame. We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow. Some of us sadder than others. Some of us more willing to forgive than others.
Grudges are heavy, but for the people hurting the most, I suppose forgiveness is even heavier.”

THIS!!!

“Ledger keeps us wrapped tightly together when he says, “In a matter of a few weeks, I went from hating you to liking you to wanting the world for you, so forgive me if those feelings sometimes overlap.”

MY HEART

This book keeps tearing me apart and then stitching me back together again and again and I’m a literal mess 🥲 I just wanna give Kenna a big hug 🙁

My heart is breaking for Kenna 🥺

“I have a daughter I have never held.
She has a scent I have never smelled.
She has a name I have never yelled.
She has a mother who has already failed.
Love,
Kenna”

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“She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying.
She was still a mystery.
And he loved her.”

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I’m so scared that Holland is dead help me 💔💔

why did so many people just die within 3/4 chapters 😭😭 this is pain ‼️

“I have never known what to make of you. Not since the day we met. And it terrifies me. You terrify me.” He cupped her face in both hands. “And the idea of you walking away again, vanishing from my life, that terrifies me most of all.”

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Holland better not die ://

“Kell isn’t the only one you fail to understand. My bond with him didn’t start with this curse. You wanted him to kill for me, die for me, protect me at all costs. Well, Mother, you got your wish. You simply failed to realize that that kind of love, that bond, it goes both ways. I would kill for him, and I would die for him, and I will protect him however I am able, from White London, and from you.”

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“Holland was already broken. It showed, not in the scars, but in the way he spoke, the way he held himself in the face of pain, too well acquainted with its shape and scale. He was a man hollowed out long before Osaron, a man with no fear and no hope and nothing to lose.”

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These first few chapters are insane 😭😭

“You could just …” he whispered, “stay.”
“Or you could go,” she countered, “with me.”

“I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance. But I do know that you come asking after one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stairs divide you.”

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“Kell looked her in the eyes. “You will be trapped there,” he said. “When it is over.”
Lila shivered. “Perhaps,” she said, “or perhaps I will go with you to the end of the world. After all, you’ve made me curious.”

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short chapters are everything 😩

“Kell managed an echo of her smile, and she gasped. “What’s that on your face?”
The smile vanished. “What?”
“Never mind,” she said, laughing. “It’s gone.” Kell only shook his head—he didn’t grasp the joke—but whatever it was, it seemed to delight Lila, and she chuckled to herself all the way to Whitbury.”

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“French seems to have a triggering effect on you,” he murmured suddenly, and I could hear he was amused.
“It does.”
“It’s hilarious. You don’t even know what I’m saying. I could be insulting you, and you’d just moan with pleasure.”

SO TRUE 😭😭😭