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“I would know she was near, even in darkness.
And I had never desired to be a god, to wield power as one, but in that moment, I longed to halt time. I would have made an interlude for us, a space when the hour lost its bite and the sun stood still. We could simply breathe and let ourselves unravel this knot between us, slowly.”

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“Will you take me somewhere safe?” she said.
I gathered her into my arms.”

This!!!!! Does anyone else see it!!???? She’s safe with him!!!! I can’t take it I’m going insane reading this transcendent book.

“I pressed my lips to Matilda’s neck; I breathed against her chilled skin. She tasted like rain. I whispered in her hair, words only she could hear.
“Return to me, Red. […] If it takes you, then let it also take me.”

“My heart was like a wild creature. I knew she could feel it, pounding beneath her palm. I willed it to calm, for my blood to thicken and slow, so that I would not feel so alive beside her, incandescent with longing.”

Vincent will be my undoing.

Vincent could not help his kin as Matilda could not help hers. Their pain is a mirror.

Elite microtrope: When she’s injured and he has to be careful with her, gently tending to her wounds so as not to cause her more pain. I die.

“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.