Laura’s Reviews > Death in the Spires > Status Update

"'I have been mired in the past for a decade. I should like to experiment with a future, if I am to be permitted one.’"
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"‘A toast. To what?’
‘Absent friends. Forgiveness. What happens next.’"

ANYONE WHO MATTERS HE SAID!!! Thanks for helping mend my heart

"‘I beg your pardon, ladies. Is anyone hurt?’
Hugo made a noise in his throat.
Aaron said, ‘Not you,’ with a calm simplicity more devastating than Nicky’s most baroque contempt. ‘Anyone who matters? Good. Well. What are we going to do with him?’"

Your honour, I love them
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"‘I missed you, all of you. This is the devil’s own reunion, but I’m glad you did it, Jem.’"
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"‘He’s going to have a seizure,’ Ella said as they passed. ‘Shall we all book tea with the Master as well?’"

:'(
"'He had Nicky for school and me for home, and he loved us because we loved him best of all. And when we failed to do that, when we put our own lives and loves first, we betrayed him unforgivably. We betrayed him, and you two stole from him.’ She glanced between Aaron and Jem. ‘Because Nicky and I were his."

+heavy fucking sigh+

"‘You’re suggesting he might have grown out of it,’ Aaron said. ‘I think he was, if anything, growing into it. You are both letting the man he could have been blind you to what he was becoming. To me, in that last argument, it was very clear indeed.’"

SPOILERS

"Jem couldn’t understand the horror on his face, and then he did. ‘You suspected each other,’ he said before he could stop himself. ‘You both thought⁠—’
Ella shook her head, a tiny motion. ‘Never. I never did. I never believed it.’
‘I didn’t want to believe it,’ Aaron said. ‘I never⁠—’"

aUYadsghdfnmf it's fine, it was called for, BUT GAH, Jem is right: "'You let us, all of us, wither up in fear and mutual suspicion, and look at us. Look at the damage.’"

"'I’ve spent ten years in mourning for a wonderful thing that was ripped away from me, and now I know it never existed. I thought we trusted each other, that we cared for each other, but I was wrong, wasn’t I? All this time I’ve been weeping at a grave, and the coffin was empty.’"
ouch

"Ignore any knocking; it will be students, thus unimportant." @ 73%
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"'I hate to throw you out, but there is an illiterate on his way, fearing my undivided attention.’" @ 77%

"He couldn’t go on like this, loving people and suspecting them at once. A human mind couldn’t do that without breaking."