how it feels finishing a new book and realizing there's a whole new fandom to obsess over and read fanfics abt:

Did you ever have a shut up moment with your favorite fictional men. Like I love them, but at that moment, I was like AHHHH

"There is nothing of equal value to me." And it's true. We know that Jacks was a selfish person, it was proven in the Caraval series, and even he admits that he is a villain. He will get anything he wanted and doesn't care if it destroys someone along the way. Therefore, when he said that there is nothing of equal value to him, it.is.the.truth, not just in a way it was 'romantic', it was a fact, the only valuable thing he had - his everything - was Evangeline, and now that she is gone, he has no one, nothing important in his life.