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“And when one day people look back on me and what my life meant, I don’t want them to say, ‘Alec Lightwood fought in the Dark War’ or even ‘Alec Lightwood was Consul once.’ I want them to think, ‘Alec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him.’”

ash finding the picture of dru! omg

"Drusilla. She looked lonely, Ash thought, but determined as well, as if a hope lived behind those summer-blue eyes, a hope that could not be quenched by loss, a hope too strong to feel despair. Ash’s heart was pounding, though he could not have said why. Hastily, he folded the drawing and thrust it into his pocket."

but even if they fit differently, they still fit like sisters
🥲

“I’ve been awake for a while,” Kieran admitted. “But I pretended to be asleep because it was awkward.”

kit teaching dru how to pick locks

"it had never occurred to him to want a little sister, but there was something nice about having someone to teach things to" AWWW

don't talk about julian's sisters he will LITERALLY kill you lmao

10 years ago Cristina bravely asked what if my boyfriends were boyfriends and nothing has ever been the same since
Mark x Cristina x Kieran you are one of the ships of all time

I have made a grave error reading this on day one of my period LOL

“Shelo ted’u od tza’ar, Mark Blackthorn.”
“What does that mean?” said Mark.
“It’s a blessing,” said Simon. “Something else the rabbi taught me. ‘Let it be that you should know no further sorrow.’”

'the law is hard but it is the law' son or 'a bad law is no law' daughter

this final chapter has the audacity to begin with "The sun was shining in Alicante"



it's about to be the worst day of everyone's life and the sun is shining

The story that I love you, it has no end.

"You are not a monster Kieran, there is nothing wrong with your heart"
"That cannot be true, " he said, "for you were my heart."
The ending sequence of this book is just like getting shot in the chest over and over again 🫠😃

"and though there were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H."
Will would have LOVED Kit lmao

"When a decision like that is made by a government it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assumed they are simply brave enough to say what everyone else really thinks."
💅💅💅

He remembered when he had been carrying Tavvy upstairs, once, when he’d been thirteen; he’d tripped and fallen, twisting his body around so that he would land on his back, not caring if he was hurt as long as Tavvy was all right. He’d cracked himself pretty hard on the head, too, but he’d sat upright fast, his mind racing: Tavvy, my baby, is he okay? It was the first time he’d thought “my baby” and not “the baby."

"I dont know where I belong," he said. "But if you let me, I will try to belong here."
Mark Blackthorn 🥰😭

"you belong where you are loved."

"And in that moment Emma hated the fair folk, for in holding Mark, they also held Julian's human, breakable heart "

Free my girl Lidia (she's okay she's just stuck with Tharion 😭)

I always find it baffling when I read any kind of fantasy and the women are second class citizens. You are MAKING UP this world and we couldn't over come misogyny? I get that sometimes it has plot reasons but I'm just not feeling very girl boss about this.
If a fantasy writer is going to write about some kind of gendered/racial based inequality please have the nuance in your writing to explore these topics.

Baxian!!!

"Nine years we stole... Nine cowardly years; Nine perfect years. I know you want to write the whole of it, every detail, so that we'll never forget again, but Owen, have mercy: Don't make me remember too well. Don't make me lose them again."
Stab me in the chest next time

"I did not ask where or when we were going; it did not matter where we ran, so long as you ran beside me."
💕💕💕

Una is so brave 🥲