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Will gave Thomas a hard look and, after a moment, said intently, “Is Gideon aware that he still owes me twenty pounds?”

“Yes,” said Thomas, without being able to stop himself, “but he is pretending not to remember.”

“I knew it!” cried Will. He turned to the Inquisitor with a triumphant look. “I believe we’re done here.”

I MISSED WILL SO MUCH OH MY GODS

— Mar 08, 2021 11:25AM

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"I'm delighted to make you acquaintance at last. "I'm Charles Fairchild—you might know my mother, the Consul."
"Charles," Matthew muttered through clenched teeth. "You've just been stabbed."

— Mar 04, 2026 02:21PM

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"I am a scientist," said Christopher, "not a geographer! I don't have a map of London. I do have beaker of Raum venom," he added, "but it's in my shoe, and will be difficult to reach."
"Does anyone have questions about that?" James said, glancing around. "No? Good. All right, a map—"

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"You think I do not want to live again, truly? To walk with you by the river, hand in hand in the sunlight?"

oh, jesse <3

— Mar 04, 2026 02:15PM

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She laid her hand on his wrist. "Do you trust me?"
He managed a smile. "Most of the time."

— Mar 04, 2026 02:13PM

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"I'm not leaving."
Anna looked at her real curiosity. "Why not?"
"Because," Ariadne said, "when you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow."

— Mar 04, 2026 02:12PM

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"A ghost falling in love with a living girl and pining away in a dusty attic while she lives her life. But I could survive that, Lucie. It would just be a tragedy for me."
[...] "It's never a tragedy to love somebody."
"I think Romeo and Juliet would disagree with you on that [...] And don't you see? If—if you loved me back, then that is not just a tragedy for one of us; it's a tragedy for both of us."

— Mar 04, 2026 02:09PM

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"You don't understand," he said. "When I am with you, I imagine my heart is beating, though it has not beaten for seven years. You give me so much, and I can give you nothing at all...I told myself you felt nothing for me, any more than you would feel for—for a portrait, or a photograph of someone who had once lived and breathed. If I told myself lies, then this is my fault. All of it."

jesse and lucie!!!

— Mar 04, 2026 02:07PM

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"I am not to be won, Ariadne. Love is a prison, and I have no desire for shackles. They would clash with my outfit."
"But I love you," Ariadne said, "and I do not feel shackled."

— Mar 04, 2026 02:02PM

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Sometimes Cordelia wondered if her unrequited love was a sort of third member of their household, present even when she was not—haunting James's steps, wrapping ghostly arms about him as he tied his tie before the mirror, curling up insubstantially beside him as he slept.

oh, cordelia

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"I like the Devil Tavern rooms," protested James.
"I like a fire in the grate that doesn't get rained out," said Thomas.
"You are not to send your things from the Devil Tavern to my new house," James said sternly. "It is not a storage facility for my misbegotten friends."

— Feb 15, 2026 07:57PM