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The storm calls to you as it calls me, does it not?
He held out a hand to her, half-beckoning, half-offering.
"Why lie?" he said.

oh cassandra i forgot how MESSY YOU GET

"We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I'm yours and you're mine, and you've always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you! [...] Is this a joke to you Emma? Don't you understand?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "I don't live if you die!"

oh julian

Kit had imagined before what he'd do if a Nephilim ever grabbed him. How he'd stomp on their feet, break their bones, snap their wrists, spit in their faces. He did none of those things, thought of none of those things. [...]
He thought, how beautiful.

oh the kitty agenda is so strong from page 1

[Julian] wanted to relax into his older brother, let Mark hold him up the way he once had. But Mark was slighter than he was, fragile under his hands. He would be holding Mark up from now on. It was not what he had imagined, dreamed of, but it was the reality. It was his brother. He tightened his hands on Mark and adjusted his heart to bear the new burden.

oh, julian <3

"You said, 'Stay with Emma,'" Julian said. "You said to stay with her, and I have. We're parabatai now. I've looked after her for years and I always will, because you asked me to, because it was the last thing you ever said to me, because—" [...]
"Julian," Mark said, muffled, his body shaking. "Julian, my brother, my brother."

<3

"No," she said. "I'm a candygram. This is my costume."
The faerie looked puzzled.
Emma sighed. "It's so hard to be sassy to the Fair Folk. You people never get jokes."
"We are well known for our jests, japes, and ballads...some of our ballads last for weeks."
"I don't have that kind of time," Emma said. "I'm a Shadowhunter. Quip fast, die young."

oh emma i missed you

YOU HYPOCRITE, MALCOLM

third re-read

especially need it after that JOHN GREEN book that i just can't review for the life of me

Given my terrible memory, I not surprised that I forgot so much of this. Good idea, past Vaish, to re-read this to refresh my memory.