Finale by Stephanie Garber

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If there had been a clock in the room, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them, and this was one of them. People don't get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all. p3

He looked the way she would have imagined a vigilante who had a secret identity as a gentleman botanist. p56

"But I don't want to feel differently. I want to feel love in its every form. I used to be so scared of it, but now I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren't supposed to exist, it's infinitely valuable. I can't imagine my life without it. And if you felt any love in your heart, you would understand." p187

Love it

"Just because I don't like you doesn't mean you're not pretty." p17

And by proper, Tella imagined it would be the sort of good-bye that the prying eyes of a sister weren't meant to witness. p236

He looked perfect and tempting, and in that moment Tella felt like a girl from a fairy tale who'd stumbled upon a sleeping god that would give her a prize if she woke him with a kiss. p347

Love

But [character] knew that once she was immortal, she would no longer be able to love. Love was such a fundamental part of what drove her, she didn't know who she'd be without love. What if it made her like her father, who only wanted power? p321

Discussion

But more than any of those things, she wanted to be forever by his side, whether he was with her as she was fighting a nightmare or chasing a dream, or if it was the other way around, and she was helping him achieve a new dream. Even if that meant sacrificing one of her dreams. p344

Shade?

Mouths all over the courtyard opened in signs and ahhhhs. Everyone was eager to believe him although he had no real evidence. p385



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Tella's face went bone-white, but her expression turned fierce and her hand felt warm and solid as she took Scarlett's and squeezed tight. "You're the same as you've always been, we just know more about you now. But it doesn't change you-- not unless you let it. And this news doesn't change us , either. Even if we didn't share any blood at all, I would still call you my sister and I would battle anyone who tried to say it wasn't true. You are my family, Scarlett. Who your birth father is doesn't change that." p226

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