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“You know,” he says, swallowing with some difficulty. “I always thought I was Achilles in this story—the over controlling mother, the famed heritage, the great expectations,” he smiles wryly. “But here I am James, wearing your armour, rushing off into battles I have no business fighting. Playing the hero, and failing, like the secondary character I am,” he laughs. “But that’s—“ he has to clear his throat. “That’s where the metaphor ends okay? Fuck fate, fuck prophecies, let someone else handle it. Let someone else save the day. You just…go away somewhere okay? Go live your beautiful life. Fade into obscurity, leave the heroics to people who have less to offer the world. Don’t go to Troy.”
― Choices
― Choices
“I love you like all-fire.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping
“I would do it all again, you know. I would relive every miserable moment of my miserable life just for the chance to be yours.”
― Choices
― Choices
“Suddenly it seems important. Important that they know. That somebody know; that after everything, Regulus Black finally made the right choice.”
― Choices
― Choices
“It was James who had an ego the size of a lake but a heart to match it.”
― All the Young Dudes
― All the Young Dudes
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