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"You could remove the chains, but if you did not develop the institutions that would allow for the incorporation of previously enslaved people into a democratic society, then slavery would not be abolished."

"...I'm short on a plan but have an abundance of panic."

"'What are you smiling at?'
'Nothing,' I say, though said smile breaks into a sudden laugh. 'Only, I think it's quite amused that our respectable parents raised two contrary children.'
Felicity grins at me in return, and then she laughs as well-- a loud and distinctly unladylike sound, and I love it all the more for that. 'Two contrary children,' she repeats. 'Our new little brother doesn't have a chance.'"

"'Feli, you glorious little shit. That's the most devious thing I've ever heard.'"

"I want to run away right then but there's just Percy in the cabin and water on either side, and the person I most want to run away from is me."

"If he could beat this out of me, I would have let him long ago."

"Poor Monty, with a father who beats you until you bleed.
Poor Monty, with a fortune to inherit and an estate to run.
Poor Monty, who's useless and embarrassing...
Poor Monty, in love with your best friend."

"And I wish in that moment that I were brave. I wish to God I were. But I'm shaking and terrified... I haven't a courageous bone in my body--if I knew what they were looking for, short of it being my own damn sister, I would have handed it over without a fight. But I'm clueless and helpless, and... all I can think is, Nothing bad has ever happened to me before. Nothing bad had ever happened in my whole life."

"Cheers to being no good at parties."
"I'm usually very good at parties. I think it's the party's fault."

"...It is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes up to find that important has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other's mouth.
A long, slow slide, then a sudden impact."

"...I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious."

Maia's gonna get killed, isn't she... I like her, dammit.

Amendment to prior statement: Reasons to continue reading this series are the world, Simon, Alec, and Magnus.

Reading because I was told it gets better. So far, the only redeeming qualities are Simon and Alec.

I love this so much. Mia's snark, this mysterious narrator, the world, the attention the detail, it's just excellent.

The court intrigue in this book reminds me why I loved Red Queen and The Selection so much in middle school. Also Jude could press me to a wall with her knife anytime.