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"She turned to see Nick. There was not an ounce of chocolate on him -not even the small smudge he started with."

YES NICK FINALLY GOT RID OF CHOCOLATE FINALLYYYYYYY

"'Please don't go,' Allie whispered in his ear. 'I don't want to,' Mikey whispered back, 'but it's time.'...And when that timeless moment was over, Mikey kissed her one last time, then let go, and disappeared into eternity, leaving Allie with five words she knew she would never forget: 'I'll be waiting for you.'"

STOPP THAT'S SO SADDD

"Those whose form's had changed, now changed back: those who had forgotten their names, now remembered. Every single one of them heard the light calling them by name,... So together, and yet each on their own terms, the warriors and Mary's children leaped into the tunnel, completing their journey, and getting where they were going without fear or regret."

...wow.

"She would soon have to come up with a new word for them. Thunderheads, perhaps. 'A thunderhead of Afterlights' She rather liked it!"

See this is the author connecting two of his books together.

"She could still remember the intense pain of his cold steel blade in her chest -indeed there was a tear in her dress in that exact spot over her heart- and she remembered the conflicted look in his eyes when she died."

Soooo... how'd it feel like to get stabbed in the heart, Mary? Both literally and figuratively
(low-key giving ragatha flashbacks)

"'London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down...'
Sing alongs, Johnnie-O had decided, were invented by the darkest forces of evil as hell's ultimate horror."

Welp, can't argue with that.

And the next section is called Mary Rising! Straight to the point, but also kinda reminds me of Christianity.

"And in a glass coffin, a girl dressed in glorious green opened her eyes and smiled,...While in a lonely chamber deep beneath the Alamo, a Wurlitzer jukebox, without coin or question, began to play 'Eve of destruction.'"

Welp...that's...ominous...

"'Put it in my shirt pocket,' he ordered Jix. Jix went to Avalon and gave him a wide smile...Then he grabbed Avalon's hand and slapped the coin right into the center of his palm, forcing Avalon's fingers closed over it... 'No! No!' Avalon shouted. 'I'm not ready!...' And before everyone's eyes, he lurched forward and vanished in a rainbow of twinkling light. There was absolute silence.'"

This is why Jix slays.

"All in all, it was good being the Chocolate Ogre, although he didn't feel much like an Ogre... Ogre was the wrong word. He felt more like a Chocolate Bunny. He told Mikey that, and Mikey instructed him to never say that again. 'Bunnies are timid and fearful, and stupid,' Mikey had said. 'You're none of those things.' 'Yes, I am,' Nick had insisted. 'I'm stupid!'"

Annnnnd this is why I love Nick.

"Jill did not deny it. 'In a perfect world,' she said, 'shouldn't we all enjoy our jobs?'"

I JUST EXPERIENCED THE MOST INTENSE BOUT OF DEJA VU. In book 3 of Scythe, there is a quote like, "'We are imperfect beings,' Munira said. 'How could we ever fit in a perfect world?'"
and that just got me thinking so hard. THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE TWO
Note that in scythe everyone hates their job soooo...it's crazy