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“His head came up, his eyes full of agony, and he moved away.

She saw what it cost him, saw the tremor in his hands as he lowered them to his sides.

Felt the space between them like the space of a wound torn into flesh.”

“It wasn't that she was walking away from the boy she loved with a thousand words unsaid between them...

It was that she was terrified a rift had opened between her and the person who had been her best friend as long as she could remember.”

“And in that moment Cristina yearned toward him more than she ever had, for she knew that feeling, to be so hollowed out by loss that you felt as if the wind could blow through you”

“That is very human,” he said. “To be jealous of a body but not a heart.”

“You’re walking the edge of a razor blade, Julian, with everything you hide. Believe me, I’ve walked that razor blade half my life.

You get so used to it sometimes you forget that you’re bleeding.”

“There was a time when shadow hunters would’ve investigated the killing of our kind because they believed in their mandate to protect more than they believed in their hate.”

“There was a time when shadow hunters would’ve investigated the killing of our kind because they believed in their mandate to protect more than they believed in their hate.”

My final shadow hunters trilogy