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It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual.” - Magnus Bane, High Warlock of Brooklyn

TOP FIVE BOOKS/SERIES AS VOTED BY MY FOLLOWERS   ↳ #1 six of crows by leigh bardugo

there are no good men in ketterdam.

edit challenge vs. @rosebudgirls​​​ →  round one:  these violent delights by @chloegong​ + favorite character

a long time ago, roma had told juliette that her anger was like a cold diamond. it was something she could swallow smoothly, something to be placed upon other people, gliding along their skin in glitter and glamour before they realized far too late that the diamond had sliced them into pieces. he had admired her for it. mostly because his own anger was the precise opposite—an uncontrollable wave of fire that knew no subtlety.

@librarysource’s mission 2: page to screen: a book being made into a tv show

percy jackson and the olympians by rick riordan

look, i didn't want to be a half-blood.

They said she was cruel because she’d been harmed in the past. They claimed she was cold because she just hadn’t met the right fellow to warm her. Anything to soften her edges and sweeten her disposition—and what was the fun in that? Zoya’s company was like strong drink. Bracing—and best to abstain if you couldn’t handle the kick.

FICTIONNET’S SECRET SANTA EVENT: merry christmas mia @chaghanaltan !!

i want to do something splendid before i go into my castle—something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after i’m dead. i don’t know what, but i’m on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.

OUR VIOLENT ENDS by @chloegong

I made a vow to you, Roma.’ She took a step forward. No one stopped her. ‘Where you go, I go. I will not bear a day parted. I will take a dagger to my own heart if I must.

𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 // 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞

𝘐'𝘮 𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯, 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘩𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵

𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘩𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵

—𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕒 𝔻𝕖𝕝 ℝ𝕖𝕪 (𝔻𝕒𝕣𝕜 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕖)

SIX OF CROWS :  “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”

just because it is in Malibu’s nature to burn, so was it in one particular person’s nature to set fire and walk away

malibu rising, taylor jenkins reid

She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above

poc week, day 7: free choice -> inej ghafa

@ravencyclenet event 02  | quotes

…It was all of those things, all at once.  — the raven king

daisy jones & the six, by taylor jenkins reid

but music is never about music. if it was, we’d be writing songs about guitars. but we don’t. we write songs about women.

@shadowsofcolor​ event 0 - gtkm: alastair carstairs

the grisha trilogy by leigh bardugo.

“maybe love was a superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”

@storyseekers event 15: character that i relate to

— anyway, you don’t have to work it out, like, immediately. i didn’t just wake up one day like- oh look, guess i’m gay now!

the raven cycle - maggie stiefvater

Juliette Cai, These Violent Delight by @chloegong

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[ariana voice] yuh @chelssss_ UMMMM on the Q this morning this little kid was getting picked on by two older kids and before i could do anything this hot butch girl jumped in and the bullies SCATTERED hello 911 how am i supposed to work now that i’ve seen an angel irl???? 7:42 AM · 8 Nov 2018

There will be hatred. There will be war. The country will fight itself to pieces. It will starve its people, ravage its land, poison its breath. Shanghai will fall and break and cry. But alongside everything, there has to be love—eternal, undying, enduring. Burn through vengeance and terror and warfare. Burn through everything that fuels the human heart and sears it red, burn through everything that covers the outside with hard muscle and tough sinew. Cut down deep and grab what beats beneath, and it is love that will survive after everything else has perished.

our violent ends by @chloegong

BLUE&GANSEY, the raven cycle

and then we’d never say anything about it again.

for @selwynkane ♡

we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn

@parisakamaali asked: these violent delights or the atlas six

insp.

@chaptersnet event v: out of the box — the girls i’ve been by tess sharpe

“i am that good or maybe, i’m that dangerous”

“How did you die?“ “We er…. drowned in a bathtub.” “All three of you?” “It was a big bathtub.”

what do u mean Henry didn't do the SATs bc he had an 'aesthetic objection'

rip basil hallward u would've loved casual by chappel roan

I thought if I neglected things, they wouldn't matter anymore, but the more you neglect and run away from them, the more you care. I've decided not to run anymore. I'm not sure whether it's the best solution or not, but I'd like to experience what it is to live with things that make you want to escape.

"In their darkness lies the power to heal and transform".

© - shelovesskiez

TAHITI: THE IMAGE IN THE MIND

This beautiful lyrical essay about growing up in Tahiti and losing her father is by Lillian Howan, author of ‘The Charm Buyers’. Lillian’s writings have appeared in Asian American…

Lights From A Distance An essay I wrote about my father, ancient navigation, and Tahiti. Thank you author, activist, actor, and poet Leslie Stuart Tate for your beautiful presentation of my essay. Thank you Francoise Holozet-Howan for this wondrous photo.