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it was such an immediate, instinctual movement. Like he didn’t even think about it. Like he couldn’t have stopped himself even if he had.
After all of this, after I had damned him and betrayed him and lied to him, he still reached for me.

I expected something to go horribly wrong but I must say that I didn’t expect this turn

“I’m no hero. All I am in this story is the person who set the stage for the real one to step through"
“We’re at the end of the road I’ve walked for over a decade,” he said. “I hope to cross its threshold with you. But I’ve already played every card in my hand. I’ve rolled every set of dice. My usefulness is waning. So if I hadn’t come back, you would have simply continued without me.”

“We have failed so many people. The one thing we have left to offer their memories is blood"

“We all have bad dreams. I prefer to replace mine with better endings,even if books are the only place left to find them”

I saw that version of myself in Septimus and I felt such a sudden,fierce compassion for him that it actually hurt
“You’ll never forget it, It will follow you forever”
“It already does”

This hurts

Everyone always looks at their heroes like that, in the end.

Who fucking cared how they fought? I cared only that they needed to at all.

Damn, this book does not waste time

I love Carissa Broadbent, one of my favorite authors ever, I love the writing, the stories, the themes, the characters, the depth; she could write the grocery list and it would be beautiful. I don’t have a single worry about this book.