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624 pages, Hardcover
First published June 4, 2019
“Every world contains other worlds within it.”
“Old sins cast long shadows.”
“Foolish people say so many things. But we know who we are…”
“I want you to give them both a span of time. Both of them in a time and place where they can be young and happy and together.”
“…those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved.”
“They’d both given a piece of their hearts to a Herondale. And they both loved someone they could not have.”
“Your voice is the music I love best in all the world.”
“But we bear so much that seems unthinkable. The only truly unbearable burden is living without love.”
“A boy, a Carpathian lynx, and a ghost.”
“Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.”
"The story that I love you, It has no end."
“Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.”
“Later Matthew would look back and remember it as his last happy day.”
“The trousers and jacket do not make me a man, and the necklace does not make me a woman. They are only what makes me feel beautiful and powerful in this moment. I am exactly as I choose to be.”
“The face of the one you love is the best mirror of all. It shows you your own happiness and your own pain and it helps you to bear both, because to bear either alone is to be overwhelmed by the flood.”
“If she lived until the sun died, there would never be any other for her besides Will and Jem, those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved.”
“It would be unjust to blame the past for choices made in the present. Nor can we justify present choices by invoking the sins of the past.”
“No, said Jem, because he was always James Carstairs when he spoke of what was dearest to him. Not mine. My parabatai’s. W and H. William Herondale. Will.”
“No bed!” he argued. “Stay up. Be with Rafe.” He sidled up to a stunned looking Rafael and gave him a big hug. “I’m love him.”
Rafe hesitated, then hugged Max shyly back. The sight of them made Alec’s chest hurt. He cast a glance back at Magnus, who had an equally smitten expression.
“The light winked out. Jem and Tessa were already in motion. In the century and a half they’d known each other, much had changed, but this truth endured: when a Herondale called, they would answer.”
"I would tell them this. That the future isn't fixed. If we see a path in front of us that we would not choose, then we can choose another path. Another future."
“Whoever you have loved, and however you loved them,” said Jem, “anyone you loved would be lucky.”
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“Every world contains worlds within it. People wander through all the worlds they can find, searching for their homes.”
Old sins cast long shadows.
I have always known you, my love. You are the gem of my heart. My firstborn. My Anna.
The face of the one you love is the best mirror of all. It shows you your own happiness and your own pain and it helps you to bear both, because to bear either alone is to be overwhelmed by the flood.
Everything around it was gone, but it had been saved--impossibly, improbably saved from thousands of bombs. London would not let it die, and it had lived.
There is nothing more painful than love denied. A love that cannot be requited. I can think of nothing more painful than that.
There are more kinds of love than stars. If you do not feel one, there are many others. You know what it is to care for family and friends. What we keep sacred keeps us safe. Consider that by trying to cut yourself off from the possibility of being hurt, you shut the door on love and live in darkness.
DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT buy the UK edition hardback. The hardback does not have the book and a dust jacket on top like usual hardbacks, but apparently has the cover printed on the book, plastified of a sort….so I wouldn’t recommend, unless of course you don’t mind that. Just putting it out there in case.