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Oh Matthew he makes me so sad

He had smiled at her, then stumbled and nearly knocked over Percival, Anna's stuffed snake. He was obviously drunk, and Lucie preferred her own company to that of an inebriated Matthew, which hurt her heart and made her want to shake him and ask him why he couldn't treat himself better. Why he couldn't see himself the way her brother saw him. Why he was so determined to harm himself and harm James in the process.

As he set out for home, he thought of the inscription on the barrel of the gun—LUKE 12:49. He knew the Biblical verse; any Shadowhunter would.
I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled

"Maybe only you can fire it," Christopher said, after thumping Thomas on the back until he could breathe again. "Because of your— your lineage. Interesting."

the inscription LUKE 12:49.
"Where did you get that thing, anyway?" said Thomas. It’s from America," Christopher said, looking discouraged by the failure of his experiment. "Henry acquired it years ago. It's a Colt Single Action Army revolver. Mundanes call it a 'Peacemaker."
Gun that maybe Kit gets (what Cassie was hinting at in an insta post somewhere👀)
If he gets James Gun in wicked powers I will scream

Lucieeee man you gotta be less obvious with your writing omg please

Jesse reading it out loud😭
Would have died with EMBARRASSMENT if that were me

"No. That demon and my father are old friends. Or rather, old enemies, but it amounts to the same thing. It likes to chase him around after parties."
"That is very peculiar," said Cordelia. "I see that I have married into
a very peculiar family"

Love him I love himmmmmm

"There's no need."
Will was looking at Tessa, his blue eyes wide. "Can I?"
Tessa smiled indulgently, as if Will had asked for a second helping of cake. "Oh, go ahead."
Will made a whooping sound. As Cordelia stared in puzzlement, he leaped down the stairs and raced off, chasing the wheel-demon.
James and Tessa were both smiling. "Should we help him?" Cordelia asked, utterly bewildered.
James grinned.

I love the yearbook scene

I remember something around Luca but can’t quite remember what.
I just remember that I loved Luca and Julian’s friendship group in general.🥺

The fact that I remember a lot of this book even though I read it like 5 years ago speaks to how much I enjoyed it.
Now re-reading it for book 2 ahh

Well, too bad, she thought. He ought to hear it. He was worth a hundred of Charles.
(Cordelia talking about Matthew)🥺

Who would have that the baby that Charlotte has at the end of Infernal devices would suck as a person

"But surely someone must have a biger secret than all that? Skeletons under the floorboards and such?"
"You mean is anyone a murderer?" Matthew turned her in a swift cirle: the dozens of candles seemed to blur into a stream of light all around them. "I am."
Cordelia laughed, a little breathless.

Oh 😭😭

Jem playing his violin at James and Cordelia’s wedding😭😭
BUT OUTSIDE
because silent brothers have no place at weddings
BUT YOU DO JEM😭

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"Have you wished me gone?" he said teasingly.
"No. Only I wish myseli gone, sometimes," Matthew said in a whisper, and it was that rarest of things where Matthew was concerned, an entirely true statement with no mockery or teasing or humor to be had.
"Never wish that," James said,

They are so good🥺🥺
Matthew noo

He was caught, suddenly, in a fierce hug from Matthew. Matthew's hands were tight on the back of his shirt, Matthew's cold cheek against his. "You went shadowy," Matthew said, his voice low, "as if you were going to disappear, as if 'd wished you gone and you were vanishing James drew back enough to smooth Matthew's hair away from his forehead.

Alastair: Why are you not even wearing a hat?
Matthew: And what cover up this hair?
Would you blot out the sun?
Hehe😂

Siying let vengeance consume her so quickly
Like your dad JUST died
Being consumed by anger usually takes a bit longer no?
It literally only been like three pages

Keeps getting worse for Ren😭
He is a damsel in distress every 5 seconds

Starting again let’s goo

Curse Graces stupid braclet 😭

"You don't mind dancing with an old man like myself?" Will said, expertly turning Cordelia about the floor.
She smiled. Will did not have the air of an old man about him— there was something of a boy's mischief in the way he smiled.
Strange that neither Jem nor Tessa had aged since the Clockwork War, yet both seemed older and more serious than Will Herondale did.

That’s my boyyy Willlll😭🙏

“Both his parents had a fondness for balconies”
James talking about Will and Tessa of course adding a balcony by the ballroom😂😂
Hilarious of course they love balconies

"He has been like this for years. Sometimes he is the James of my heart, the friend I have always Loved. Sometimes he is behind a wall of glass and I cannot reach him no matter how I pound my fists against it."

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Or, "I think I'll do some tumbling in the training room after lunch." (Alastair was always on her to practice how to fall safely, and she'd need a partner for that.)

Cordelia just wants her brother back😭
I love that throughout all of the books we get to see so many different like sibling relationship dynamics

(ignoring Sebastian though ok I am
Not talking about him here 😂)

Alastair's refusal to engage with Cordelia was, she understood, meant to cause her to give up and stop trying. So she redoubled her efforts. "Well," she would announce, if she found herself in the same room with him, "I'm going to collect wild blackberries down the lane." (Alastair loved blackberries.)

Matthew hugging Thomas🥺

"Then, if you must go, I will go with you," he said.
James's heart broke. How could he do this to Matthew? How could he contemplate dying in a place Matthew could never follow him to?
And yet.

They kill me

Someplace where Christopher was not still and silent no matter how much James begged him to open his eyes. Someplace where Christopher’s blood was not mixing with the rain on the cobblestones surrounding him in a pool of crimson. Someplace better than this.”

Foreshadowing again omg😭

“But the words seemed to echo from some far-off place, someplace where James was not kneeling in the wet and the fog next to a motionless Christopher whose chest had been scored across by demon claws.