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"You're enough, in any iteration. I loved you once, of course I'll love you again. I'll love you always. I never stopped. You have to know that."

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"Just be gentle with me, Graham," he breathed, reeling her in with her own name. "You've got me on the gallows here." He let her braid fall. "But I'll be damned if you're not the most beautiful executioner I've ever seen."

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"I'm on team Bishop against my will. Wine feels appropriate."

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"Come find me again, Mira, in another life. One where I get more time with you. One where I get to love you longer."

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"Promise me you'll come back."
He kissed her. "Always."

😩😩😩😩 shooting me will hurt less

"Say the word, Winters. For you, I'll break every fucking rule there is."

"When her date gently kissed her neck, she held Dawson's stare and pictured his lips on her pulse point. They wouldn't be this gentle. They would claim her. And she wanted them to.

SPHERES, I'm legit losing my miiiiiinddddd

"Usually, I don't have girls this late at the estate unless they spend the night."
She suppressed her sigh and eye roll because it would only please him to see her annoyed. "Well, I will be the exception to your rule."
"I do like a challenge."

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"Perhaps you're assuming a little much about me?"
"I would like to go back to not thinking about you at all."
His eyebrows rose with interest. "Ah, so you're thinking about me?"
She rolled her eyes at him. "Yes, because just like vermin, you seem to be difficult to get rid of."

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"You say you're broken like that makes you lesser," he murmured. "But broken things have the sharpest edges, and I would want nothing less for a blade."

"It's a terrifying thing, being known. I know you'll never ask for what you want. But you'll never have to. Not with me."

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"Your fury is a lovely thing to behold. I imagine death by your hand would feel something like salvation."

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"He kisses me like a warning, like he's trying to force me to yield."

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"You made breakfast? How?"
His look of derision is cutting. "What do you mean, how? I'm a grown man. Even evil knows how to make a fucking piece of toast."

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"I'm not getting on my knees." I aim for derision, but the rasp in my voice ruins the effect.
The Warden's eyes flash. "You don't need to. Not yet."
"Not yet?"
"I'll have you on your knees eventually."

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"I didn't know when it had become this bad. I didn't know when I'd started wanting him so much."

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"Sometimes a book forms such a foundational part of you that to meet somebody else who loves it, who really cares about it, feels like stumbling on a stranger in another country who comes from your hometown."

"I would kiss you." His gaze falters to her lips. "I'd kiss you until there was nothing left."

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"Fine. Decide I'm a monster if it makes this easier. I'll be one for you, Jules."

yoooooo, this whole chapter WHAT 🤯🤯 this gave major "Fine, make me your villain" vibes 🥵 but also, this whole book feels like an acid trip and I've never even taken acid 🤣 what is even happening 🫨

"You're haunted?" Ezra leans close enough that she can nearly taste his next words. "I'm possessed."

dear gods. this. whole. chapterrrrrrrrr.

"Loving you is not the end, it's the beginning of everything."

Theo "you're threaded through me like sinew" Ariti, king of my heart 😭😭😭😭❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

He leaned closer, lips close. "So instead of walking into hell alone, you will take me with you."

Theo "you've made everything that is not you taste like ash" Ariti 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

"But you must know that I see all the parts you hate and wish to hide, and I love you still."

Theodore "you left a mark on every part of me" Ariti 😭😭😭😭🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

"You're hurt."
"You're married."

OHMYGODSOHMYGODS THIS WHOLE CHAPTERRR 😭😭😭

"And then, whether Imogen liked it or not, she would learn one new truth: That I was just as stubborn and determined as she was."

yesssssssss, Theo, show heeeerrrrrrr 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

"Get me out of the water," she cried in terror. "Please"
"You should fear the water, Halla." I pulled her nearer, locked my eyes with hers. "It belongs to me."

chapter 26 is still one of my absolute fav chapters, especially when Imogen asks Theo "And what am I?" 😩😩🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

"Tell me that this—what's between us—is just our bond."

shecan'tbecausethebondonlycompelsyoutoprotectnothingmore 😭😭😭😭

"You are . . . You're one ambush after the next and I have yet to get my bearings."

one of my fav scenes 😩😩🫠🫠🫠🫠❤️‍🔥