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“You think I would do that on purpose?”
Cassius and I look at each other
I shrug.“Well,maybe”
“Yeah,actually”
the callback to book 1😭

"You have a choice before you” She tosses the head on the podium and raises her other hand.In it is the Dawn Scepter, bestowing upon the bearer the right to rule Society.“Bend. Or break.”

Don't want to finish it ok, so I'll leave the last chapter for another day

“We should return to the party”
“Why?I have everything I need right here.”I breathe in the full scent of her.If it ends tomorrow or in 80 years,I could breathe her the rest of my life. The gulf that divided us is still there,filled with questions and guilt,but that’s only part of love,part of being human. Everything is cracked,except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living

Cassius sees more than just the doubt in my own theory. He knows I could talk about Mustang, or Sevro, or Victra changing. Being different, but he sees the undercurrent because in many ways his thread in life is the most like my own. “You think you’re going to die,” he says.
“As Lorn used to say, the bill comes at the end. And the end is on its way.”

“You’re supposed to be on the Shout of Mykos”
“This isn’t the Mykos? I suppose I got lost. I’ll just follow you around so that doesn’t happen again”
“Sevro sent you. Didn’t he?”
“His heart’s a black little thing.But it can break. I’m here to make sure it doesn’t by keeping you nice and cozy”
Victra protecting her bf's bff

Battles are won months before they are fought
in awe of Darrow strategic prowess

"On my honor…”
“The same honor you had when you betrayed your friend…” Romulus gestures to me. “When you betrayed honorable, Lorn. My ally, Augustus. My father, Revus. That honor by which you watched as my daughter’s head was stomped in by a sociopathic matricide who takes orders from a sociopathic patricide?”

God I love that someone is telling Roque facts, he's the character I despise the most in the series.

Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.
It takes more to hope than to remember.

“Lorn once told me if he had been my father he would have raised me to be a good man. ‘There’s no peace for great men,’ he said. I should have asked him who he thinks makes the peace for all those good men.”

Darrow's quotes always hit

“You don’t think you’ve gotten a chance to live?”
“Not proper” he says.
“What’s proper?”
“I dunno. I just want something to look at and say, that’s safe, that’s mine, and no one is going to try and take it. A house. Kids.”
“Kids?”
“I don’t know. I never thought of it till Pops died. Till they took you.”
“Till Victra you mean…” I say with a wink. “Nice goatee by the way”
“Shut up”
from 🥺to 🤣

She saw my face and dropped her blade in surrender. Reputation is a fine thing sometimes.

kind of hot not gonna lie

It’s moments like this that I know I’m not alone. Damn the world, so long as I have my mangy little guardian angel.

I'll say it again, Darrow and Sevro friendship!!!

“I will die with my friends,” Ragnar says.
I numbly let my razor slither into my hand and hold it over his chest. There’s peace at last in Ragnar’s wet eyes. It’s all I can do to be strong for him.
“I will make a house for you in the Vale of your fathers. It will be beside my own. Join me there when you die.” He grins. “But I am no builder. So take your time. We will wait.”
😭😭

“I want to believe in you, Darrow. I want to believe in what you said in that tunnel. I ran from you because I didn’t want to accept that the only answer was the sword. But the world we live in has conspired to take everything I love away. My mother, my father, my brothers. I will not let it take the friends I have left. I will not let it take you.”

Finally Mustang and Darrow 💜