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[Maybe there are no right or wrong actions, he thought. Just the things people do, and the way others feel about it.]

“I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. Every story has the potential for infinite endings.”

But hope is a difficult thing to kill, just a spark of it can start a fire,

All stories are made of both truths and lies, she used to say. What matters is the way that we believe in them.

Love is violence, my darling, it is a thunderstorm that tears apart your world. More often than not, love ends in tragedy, but we go on loving in the hopes that this time, it will be different.

Even loneliness, hollow and cold, becomes so familiar it starts to feel like a friend.

“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead.”

“Everything is temporary, Yan Yan. And all the more reason to seize whatever’s in front of you while it’s still there.”

// spoilers

JASON NO 😭 i knew he died in this book. and it wa said that one of them would die.

but

BUT

:(

the foreshadowing in this book about EVERYTHING makes me sick

The background you’re born into doesn’t define who you can be

["Violence shows them how much we're willing to give up." said Griffin. "Violence is the only language they understand, because their system of extraction is inherently violent. Violence shocks the system. And the system cannot survive the shock. You have no idea what you're capapble of, truly. You can't imagine how the world might shift unless you pull the trigger."]

[Then he blinked, because he'd jus registered what this most mundane and extraordinary moment meant - that in the space of several weeks, they had become what he'd never found in Hampstead, what he thought he'd never have again after Canton: a circle of people he loved so fiercely his chest hurt when he thought about them.
A family.
He felt a crush of guilt then for loving them, and Oxford, as much as he did.]

finally continuing this. it was about time

[You’re this new color I didn’t know existed and now I see it everywhere and I’m like, thank god I can see it now. Such a bummer if I never did.]

oliver is a dick and so fucking annoying, i hope he dies lmao

“In the hands of a master, any spell can be dangerous.”

[Actions are what make us. We can have all the horrible thoughts in the world, but it’s what we do about them, or don’t do, that matters.]

“Decide what your principles are and hold to them, no matter what.”

look if something happens to xio i would kill everyone in this room and then myself. XIO DESERVES BETTER

i decided that teo, xio and niya are my new babys, period

[All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.]

[The fantasy of the house fire had brought them to an impossible truth. They could only stitch themselves back together if they did something irreversible.]

“I kill them because they’re beautiful, and it’s the only way I can keep them.”

[But Charlie doesn’t know what he is, not anymore. Maybe he never has. Fear makes you forget everything—turns you into something that only knows it can die.]

we are off to a good start yasss

[Can I really call myself a strong girl if I’m relying on two boys?]

bro wtf??? this is so dumb and stupid. you CAN be a strong woman and still rely on man, one thing doesn't delete the other.

you don't have to be alone to be strong and independent. this is no feminism this is bullshit

the more i read, the more i dislike the mc.