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“Both his parents had a fondness for balconies”
James talking about Will and Tessa of course adding a balcony by the ballroom😂😂
Hilarious of course they love balconies

"He has been like this for years. Sometimes he is the James of my heart, the friend I have always Loved. Sometimes he is behind a wall of glass and I cannot reach him no matter how I pound my fists against it."

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Or, "I think I'll do some tumbling in the training room after lunch." (Alastair was always on her to practice how to fall safely, and she'd need a partner for that.)

Cordelia just wants her brother back😭
I love that throughout all of the books we get to see so many different like sibling relationship dynamics

(ignoring Sebastian though ok I am
Not talking about him here 😂)

Alastair's refusal to engage with Cordelia was, she understood, meant to cause her to give up and stop trying. So she redoubled her efforts. "Well," she would announce, if she found herself in the same room with him, "I'm going to collect wild blackberries down the lane." (Alastair loved blackberries.)

Matthew hugging Thomas🥺

"Then, if you must go, I will go with you," he said.
James's heart broke. How could he do this to Matthew? How could he contemplate dying in a place Matthew could never follow him to?
And yet.

They kill me

Someplace where Christopher was not still and silent no matter how much James begged him to open his eyes. Someplace where Christopher’s blood was not mixing with the rain on the cobblestones surrounding him in a pool of crimson. Someplace better than this.”

Foreshadowing again omg😭

“But the words seemed to echo from some far-off place, someplace where James was not kneeling in the wet and the fog next to a motionless Christopher whose chest had been scored across by demon claws.

“A flash of gold sprang between Matthew and the shadow sending the Khora reeling back.
It was Oscar. The retriever sailed past the demon, missing a savage blow from its claws by barely an inch, and landed near Matthew.
The Khora started back toward the boy and the dog. Matthew threw his arms around Oscar- the puppy James had saved and given to him so long ago- curving his body to protect his dog”
🥺

"We thought it best to be prepared," said James. "Besides, I know you did much more risky things when you were my age."
"It's dreadful the way you keep throwing that in my face," said Will.
Hehe😘