She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.
She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.
YA book ladies: the song girls (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before)
Margot would say she belongs to herself. Kitty would say she belongs to no one. And I guess I would say I belong to my sisters and my dad, but that won’t always be true. To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.
My advisor: how’s your thesis going
Me: in this chapter i would like to discuss whether or not knowledge of the Dutch language influences the experience of reading Leigh Bardugo’s Six Of Crows duology (2015/16), and how much of the words are supposed to be considered little Dutch jokes woven into the text. As an obvious example we can take the name of the city: “Ketterdam” as a bastardized version of Amsterdam carries the Dutch word for heretic/non-believer, an excellent tongue-in-cheek for a city where the religion is inherently linked to the economy. Less obvious are some of the names, and we can wonder whether Ghezen, the Kerch god of industry and commerce, is a reference to the “Geuzen” [ˈɣøːzə(n)] (eng: the Beggars), the rebels who established an independent Dutch republic in the 16th century, whom depending on motivation could be considered either pirates or privateers.
My advisor: weren’t you writing about Japanese lesbians in the ‘70s
Me: no mourners no funerals
characters → kaz brekker
the really bad monsters, never look like monsters
genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
make me choose: anonymous asked
helnikor kanej?“She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
want one?
“Just like that, he was a little bit closer to the Gansey that Blue had seen in the church yard, and she found she couldn’t bear to look at him.”
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
URL inspired edits ♡ [17/?] → @fiery-feyre
“She is my mate. And my spy,’ I said too quietly. ‘And she is the High Lady of the Night Court.’
‘What?’ Mor whsipered.
I caressed a mental finger down that bond now hidden deep, deep within us, and said, 'If they had removed her other glove, they would have seen a second tatoo on her right arm. The twin to the other. Inked last night, when we crept out, found a priestess, and I swore her in as my High Lady.’ (…) 'Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court.’ My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child rearing. My queen.”
ya lit meme: king of scars → nikolai lantsov
being around nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went […] except instead of getting smaller, he just kept getting grander and more mysterious.
Fave Male Characters as Voted by my Followers: #4 ⟶ Kaz Brekker
He’d broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn’t set right, and he’d limped ever after. So he’d found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.
@acotarnet event 4: get to know the members + jocelyn
↳ favourite (feyre) quotes
I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fire - but that I would be quiet and enduring and as faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to look, and if people didn’t bother to look, but only to fear it… Then I didn’t particularly care for them, anyway. I wonder if, even in my despair and hopelessness, I was never truly alone. I wonder if I was looking for this place - looking for you all.
six of crows, leigh bardugo
character posters ▷ blue sargent (the raven cycle)
“Wanden olstrum end kendesorum.” It was the first part of a Fjerdan saying, The water hears and understands. It sounded kind enough, but Matthias knew that Nina would be familiar with the rest of it. “Isen ne bejstrum,” she finished.
six of crows, leigh bardugo
“War would linger with me long after it had ended, some invisible scar that would perhaps fade, but never wholly vanish. But for my home, for Prythian and the human territory and so many others … I would clean my blades, and wash the blood from my skin. And I would do it again and again and again.”