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"It's awfully convenient that you're suddenly interested in us once we're all adults, once we no longer need anything from you."
"I told you that's not-"
"I said I wasn't done."
"Nina, I am your-"
"You are fucking nothing."

👏 Slay, queen!

"Listen, I'm not sure... I mean, if you're looking for family, there might be better ones to pick."
Casey turned to Nina and smiled gently. "That's not exactly how family works, is it?"
"No," Nina said, shaking her head. "No, I guess it's not."

If only.

"What I need from you?" Jay said. "What I need from you is to stop sleeping with my ex-girlfriend!"
"No," Hud said, shaking his head. "My answer is no."

Felt the need to point out, emphasis on the 'ex' part here.

"Kit," Brandon said, bowing his head ever so slightly. "Nice to meet you."
"Charmed, I'm sure," Kit said, amusing herself.
Brandon smiled, fully aware that Kit was making fun of him. He turned to Nina. "Marry me," he said, with a smile.

Jumping the shark, are we?

Too much self-efficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you, Kit thought. You robbed them of how good it feels to give, of their sense of value.

When Mick pulled back to look at her, June looked away but took him by the hand. She led Mick into the bedroom. They fell to the bed, as June pulled Mick onto her.

Mick and all the STDs from the hundreds of women he's been with all this time.

She watched her mother reread her old, worn copy of Great Expectations over and over each year, because "why take a chance on another book when I already know I like this one?"

That's just so sad.

"Shoot until we're done." And then she pulled at his shorts, and let them fall down, and put her mouth on him. And he kept photographing her until they were done...

That will never come back to bite them in the rear.

I couldn’t believe what I was thinking. He’d saved the girl’s life while everyone else did nothing. He’d saved her life … and now I was breathing a sigh of relief because no one was going after him.

Wtf is wrong with these people? Is there not a single non horrible person in this book apart from the MC?

Captain of the County Schools Junior Rugby XV, national swimming champion at sixteen, and now a rising star in his second year at Oxford University.
Jamie Tait was a Bright Young Thing.
Or, as Dad would have it, the biggest little shite on the island.

Sounds about right.

[… if someone as handsome as him is not the master of the world, then who would be?]
[Pupa: The Master of the world is Ling Kai, the zombie king.]
[A zombie?!]
[Pupa: Yes, a real zombie.]
[… can he even get it up?]
[Pupa: Pardon?]

Asking the important questions.👏

"This is my holy protection, nobody will be able to break through the door or window, nobody can enter your room except me, and… you cannot leave your room at all, you might also feel a bit of side effect with your power weakening inside this room," Michael said solemnly. "Duke, I'm keeping you safe."

Congratulations, you have awakened ML yandere mode.

He is three hundred years old, he must've done at least one good thing throughout his life, right?]
[Pupa: Yes, one time, Duke Damien spared a woman because the woman had herpes. The duke released her in disgust, and since that time, Duke Damien vowed that he would never hunt a prostitute anymore.]
[… I wonder if that counts.]

LOL

'But... I'm dying,' she said, somewhat petulantly.
'I wasn't aware it was a competition!'

Sorry, she wins.

'She nicked her femoral artery,' Devlin explained to Walter later on the phone., feeling bizarrely as though he was in an episode of Casualty.

... Seriously? And she's still alive?

'Devlin. We've not known each other for very long. I'm not prone to hysterics, but I think I may have accidentally severed an artery.'

On the thigh? Can't be the femoral one or she'd be dead already.

'Not in the slightest. I'm very interested in dedo-dendocosmology.'

Consider me convinced.

Every story has a beginning and mine began, not when my sister's jealousy sealed my fate by drowning me in the water that day, but when a young carpenter heard me singing in the woods.

Well that escalated quickly.

Devlin suddenly realised that he had two choices - return the violin and risk getting caught up in a police investigation, or go on the run and hope that whoever stole the violin in the first place would never find him.

We all know what he chose.

We must change it, I push. I concentrate on what Clarabelle and Jìngyi did together, and try to circle back to what it meant to protect others, and to reconnect the worlds. Love, I think, trying to bring the focus forward.

💖

“Peace would have been leaving the earth’s energy alone to begin with. Peace would have been realizing what Richard Mayfield did was wrong, and to correct it as soon as you could. Peace would have been not killing the one person who figured out what you were up to, someone who loved you —someone who was loved, and needed.”

Slay, queen!

“If you believe that I should, then maybe you should just go!”
“Maybe I should!” Brenda huffs, her cheeks aflame.

Time for the third act breakup.

Parent/Guardian Consent for Participation in a Level-Five Spell as a Minor.
“It’s the right thing to do,” Mayor Prattlesby says. “I just— people are suffering, Kat.”

Ok, let's say you have her do the ritual, but she's the last of her lineage, right? If she dies which Woo that won't exist will be voluntold to do the next ritual in, oh, about two years? Because they're doing these regularly now.

My fingers twitch; I haven’t talked to my own mom all day, and there’s no way to reach her, or Jenn, or Erica. I hope they’re okay. I bet Erica told my mom that I was sleeping over or something, so she probably isn’t too worried just yet. But if I don’t come back tomorrow …

Should've thought of that before you jumped to another dimension, maybe.

I squint at the directions. “All right, the map goes in the south position.” Everything else is already in place—the bowl of salt water, a cup of loose soil from Erica’s backyard, and the candle waiting to be lit.

Teleportation here we gooo

I open my bullet journal and start a new list.
HOW TO GET ANOTHER DATE WITH KAT
1. Figure out interdimensional travel

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

“So, what’s she like, your Brenda?”
“She’s got this, like, intense focus,” I say, grinning, eager to share. I tell her everything about Brenda’s cute plan and her weird runebook and her scholarship application.
“And what time did you meet?”

Called the villain from the start.

“I expect you will do what you please—we’ve had ample demonstration of that—but will you follow orders?”
She felt herself flushing red. They were never going to let her forget her lapse.
Mourne snorted. “Oh, turn her loose, Dickie. She’ll do more damage.”

Yes, unleash the MC!!!

“Bad news,” said Sybil. “Very bad news.”
From the pocket of her dress she removed a small pistol and, showing no hesitation, shot the man squarely in the back.

That escalated quickly.

“I’ve never done a fresh bullet wound before. They only let us practice on pig carcasses.”
“Well, if you lose this patient you can’t have him for dinner.”

Fair.