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"Jesse, will you come to the Devil Tavern tomorrow? To discuss all this with the Merry Thieves?"
"Are we really going to discuss it?" Jesse said. "Or are you just going to go ahead and use the mirror?"
James looked at Jesse over his shoulder. "And here you were worried about fitting into the London Enclave." Despite himself, despite everything, he felt himself smile. "It's like you've known us for years."

<3

"I swear on the Angle," he said, in a muffled voice, "if you die, I will die, and I will haunt you. I will give you no peace—"

oh james and cordelia i have missed you two

"You read Persian, don't you?"
"And Sanskrit," Alastair said. "Urdu, some Malay, Tamil, Greek, and a bit of Coptic. If that would be useful."

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALASTAIR KNOWS TAMIL WHAT THE HELL OH MY GOD

i am so sorry at how geeked out i am at this, cassandra clare did this FOR ME AND FOR ME ALONE

"I dreamed of this," he said. "Of being able to touch you. Really touch you. I could always only half feel you—and I imagined what it would be like—I tortured myself with it—"
"Is it like what you thought?" Lucie whispered.
"I think it might break me," he said, and stretched out above her. "You might break me, Lucie."

oh jesse <3

"...He seems a nice enough chap, though he won't let me run experiments on him, which is unfortunate."
"I can't imagine why."
"Maybe when things calm down, he'll reconsider."
"Maybe," said James, who doubted it.

james, matthew, and cordelia are all filled with so much self-loathing that they are so BLIND to everything else around them jfc

"All of you," added Will, flopping into an armchair, "sit down. You're hovering and I loathe hovering. [...] I am tasked with relaying to you an exciting and drama-filled tale. A terrible responsibility to have fallen upon me."
James snorted. "Please, you are barely concealing your delight."

will <3

james herondale i forgive you, forget every mean thing i’ve said about you in the past, i KNEW it was that stupid bracelet making him act so un-herondale

and cordelia my love please dump both men YOU DONT NEED THEM, make james sweat it a bit DON’T LET HIM WIN YOU BACK EASILY