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“…My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damn good thing that you love me too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”

Lock me away in a padded room. I’m FERAL, screaming, crying.

“You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair, and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it…

The found family hits SO GOOD when interrogations start honestly I can’t stop smiling. It’s even better the second time around.

Also well fucking done to Xaden for trusting Vi to handle it and even leaving when he had to return to duty. Good boy 👏👏

“Violence, remember it’s only the body that’s fragile. You are unbreakable.”

I’m going to THROW UPPPP!! He never once judges her for her physical weaknesses. He always respects her inner strength, cunning, bravery and intellect. This mannnn 😩

“His arms came around me; his legs twined with mine. At first I thought, He is afraid, but then I realised his embrace was not because he feared for himself. He was holding on to me like he was an anchor in a storm. A weight to keep me grounded. He held me because he feared I was about to be carried away. And should I be, he was so entwined with me that the beast would have to take us together.”

“If you take her soul now, I will follow her to the mists. I will gladly let a divine strike me down when she breathes her last.”

A story within a story breaking my heart already.

Xaden literally holding Violet off the ground and against his body by putting a strong arm around the small of her back? Pulling her flush to him like she’s more essential than the air in his lungs? Like she IS the air in his lungs?? I’m gonna fucking crash out for the 9,682,764th time.

“A comet landing in the arms of its favourite star.”

💙💙💙

A “fuck it” moment from Reed Madsen is everything to me. 💙

“You look exactly like how I remember you. Just...”
“Just what?”
His eyes rolled over me, head to toe. “Older.”

This one, single line put me in the fucking ground. Dead. The power in that word.. the meaning… I cannot handle it. I cannot be normal about this book.

Hoppity the bunny 🐇😭

“You were right.
Thank you, Halley Foster.
You’ve made me a better man.” 😭😭😭

5 fucking stars. I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t.

“I’ll try to take pictures that aren’t all black and white. I’ll swim in the ocean, all while wishing you were on the same side of the waterline with me. I’ll try, Reed,” I rasped out. “I promise I’ll try.”

That little nod to the beginning is DEVASTATING.

“You just had to be so perfect. […] You had to be everything I’ve dreamed about, every wish I’ve made on falling stars and birthday candles and pennies in mall fountains, and you had to make me fall in love with you. How could I not? It was so damn easy. You made it easy. […] Falling for you has been the easiest thing I’ve ever done. Everything else? Painful. Torturous. But loving you… Effortless.”

“No, I’ll go. This is silly. You can’t just uproot your life when I’m the lifeless one. I have nothing keeping me here. No real home, no purpose. Please… let me go.”
“I am letting you go, Comet.”

Punch. To. The. Gut. 🥺

“In the years after my father died, I forgot what it felt like to be loved. Then I entered the quadrant and became the monster everyone needed me to be, and I never regretted it. But then you gave those words to me, and I remembered.”

My heart is in pieces all around me 😭 They’re SOULMATES! 😭

They’re talking about Liam and I don’t know why it only just hit me now. The symmetry, the yin yang, of the strongest rider in the year being paired with the weakest. Forming such a close bond, becoming friends and comrades. The symmetry of them saving each other’s lives, though it cost Liam his. Goddddd why do I do this to myself 🥺😔

“I didn’t say you aren’t beautiful.”
His slow smile stops my heart. “You think I’m beautiful?”

Saying this with my full fucking chest: men deserve to be called beautiful! And if anyone could possibly deserve it most, it’s this man. 😩 Absolutely adore that she says this to him.

Not Tairn standing in the river with Violet to cool her down after being so protective over her during her punishment and she’s safely held in his talons with all that power around her to keep her safe aaahhhhh I LOVE HIM DOES ANYONE HEAR ME 😩😩

“Figured I’d ask, just in case you were holding back secret dragon knowledge.”
“I’m always holding back secret dragon knowledge”

Tairn is my hear me out, argue with a wall.

“I want you more than my next breath, but I can’t fuck you into thinking about me like you used to. I refuse to use sex as a tool to get you back.”
He takes my hand, and presses it to my chest.
“Not when I want to be, here.” 😭
[…]
“I want you more than I want to fuck you. I want those three little words back.” 😩

Not me actually screaming in the car listening to this.

He wrote her a letter. He showed his heart. I’m losing my damn mind.

“My breath freezes when she stumbles halfway across. And my lungs don’t fully expand until I see her reach the other side.
“She made it,” I whisper up to Liam.”

😭 Vi speaking to Liam like this is so achingly tender and achingly sad.

“Don’t worry about the bed, we’ll get back there. The anticipation is good for us.” 😩😩😩😩

On top of it all, Xaden Riorson is a man who understands delayed gratification. My love for him is an affliction I never wish to be parted from.

Death roll: Xaden Riorson
“Well! This is awkward!” 😂

It shouldn’t be legal for Xaden to be unbearably hot AND funny. Giggling and jumping up and down. 🤭

“If the last few weeks have shown you anything, it should be that I don’t run from truth. No matter how hard it is, or what it costs.”
“Yeah, well, it cost me you… Shit, I shouldn’t have said that. I know it was the not telling you. I get it. But when the lives of everyone around you depend on how well you can lie, it’s not easy to realise it’s the truth that will save you.”

💔😭

They’re not on the best of terms right now, but as soon as they enter Basgiath Xaden plasters himself to Violet’s side to protect her and I melt like an ice cream in the sun. Fuck.

Violet puts her hand over Xaden’s mouth to shut him up and HE KISSES HER PALM!!!!??? Excuse me???? 😩😩😩 My heart’s gonna give out.

"I also want to spend the next thirty-seven hours committing the dimples above her exposed knee to memory."

Is this book actually fucking with me? Why couldn't it have been good???

“I go into the empty corner of my room and slide down to the floor, wedging myself as far back as I can so it feels like the walls are holding me. And then I wrap my arms around myself in a hug and pull my knees up to my chest. And just like I did when I was a lonely little boy, I pretend that in a minute someone will come in to turn on the light.”

What. The. Fuck.
My heart. 💔

“Those aren’t different versions of you. Those are stages, Maddie, and each one of them requires specific circumstances and conditions. But above all, it is you at the heart. You are Maddie in every form.”