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“I love you. I may have believed I loved Grace, but she was not the person I imagined. I think also I did not want to believe I could have been so wrong, especially about something so important. The time I have been married to you, Daisy, has been— the happiest of my life.”

james peleó contra un principe del infierno, pero dejar a cordelia para que piense sobre sus sentimientos fué lo más difícil que hizo.

“The voice that had read Layla and Majnun to him, so long ago. He had fallen in love with her then. He has loved her ever since, but he has not known it.”

“He had thought of her, dreamed of her. The bracelet had whispered to him that none of it meant anything.”

siempre fué Cordelia

“Grace. I have no desire to spend a moment with her. I despise her.”

“I was wrong about my own feelings. I was wrong about my marriage. I didn’t think it was real. It was the most real thing in my life.”
FUE LO MÁS REAL QUE TUVO EN SU VIDA.

“Cordelia, tell me what you want. If it’s Matthew, I’ll go— I’ll take myself out of your life.”

“Don’t talk about hurting yourself. What wounds you wounds me. I love you, Daisy, I-“

“The future was cold and dark, but Matthew was warm against her, a shield against shadow.”

“It was such a relief to feel, to lose herself in sensation, to let the weight of memory drop from her shoulders.”

cordelia está con matthew para olvidar, pero matthew la ama.

JAMES LOS VIÓ LRPM

“Love that will give up nothing, love that one is willing to sacrifice for a more comfortable life, is not love, in my opinion. Love should come above all other things.”

“It not easy for me. I know I must listen dispassionately to Grace’s testimony. Yet when she speaks of what was done to you, my silent heart cries out: this was wrong, it was always wrong. You love as your father loves: wholly, without condition or hesitancy. To use that as a weapon is blasphemy.”

me destruye jem teniendo que vivir todo desde afuera.

“Now that James was alone, though, thoughts of Cordelia cane crowding back into his mind.”

“He feared he would hurt her if he begged her to understand what had truly happened , that he had never loved Grace. He feared even more not trying to, condemning himself to a life utterly without her.”

“How were the people he loved the most in the world the ones he seemed to know the least?”

“But this was something different. It was like the difference between having someone describe a color to you and finally seeing it yourself.”

“We will recover together from our soul-sickness. Here, in Paris, we will conquer de pain.”

“He had kept his own secrets about love, too well. He thought of Matthew, who would be with Cordelia now in Paris.”

“He had known, but he had done nothing. He had allowed the bracelet to guide his attention elsewhere. He had failed his best friend. He had failed his parabatai.”

“They wake.”

la forma que lucie corrió a los brazos de jesse después de despertarse y verlo vivo 😭

me di cuenta que siempre alguien termina encarcelado en la ciudad silenciosa. acá grace, en tid jessamine, en tmi jace y no me acuerdo en tda.