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“You sent for me. For what reason, if not to kill me?”

These two are going to be the death of me I stg

His father is attacked and the first thing Alexander does is call for Hadrian. I’m crying

“You’re a cheery sort, Lord Marlowe.”

“No, I’m not. That’s why I have you, Aristedes. Every great lord deserves a proper jester!”

“What a trio we make, eh? Marlowe’s spare parts, you’re falling apart, and I!” —he bowed, one hand braced on his chest, “am a mutant.”

Hadrian being emotionally vulnerable to people other than Valka? Can’t beleaf this

"I wish you'd stayed dead," the prince whispered at last, and moved only his eyes to look at me. They were wet and bright. "It would have been so much easier."

Just stab me. It would hurt less.

Hadrian calling Alexander ‘dear boy’ as Gibson called him hits like a sucker punch

“I hope you fight them like you fought me.”

“You want me to lose?”