some books read in 2024: the sword of kaigen, m.l. wang
Misaki tied the obsidian sword at her hip and realized how much she had ached for its weight there. A baby just wasn’t the same.
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some books read in 2024: the sword of kaigen, m.l. wang
Misaki tied the obsidian sword at her hip and realized how much she had ached for its weight there. A baby just wasn’t the same.
the raven cycle aesthetic: the gangsey
adam wasn't certain what came first with blue - her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. it seemed to adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. and it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for glendower with them.
“What bound them together? Greed? Desperation? Was it the knowledge that if one or all of them disappeared tonight, no one would come looking?”
Men do the work of devils, do they not? It has always been so.
#it’s me, i’m bitches (insp.)
“excelsior,“ gansey said bleakly. blue asked, “what does that even mean?” gansey looked over his shoulder at her. he was once more, just a little bit closer to the boy she’d seen in the churchyard. “onward and upward.”
happy holidays @aredhels ♡
An Ember in the Ashes Quote Rp Meme
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.”
“You are an ember in the ashes. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.”
“All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.”
“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”
“The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.”
“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”
“Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
“I’d rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.”
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.”
“Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope.”
“But you, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.”
“In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in its cold arms.”
“Curse this world for what it does to the mothers, for what it does to the daughters. Curse it for making us strong through loss and pain, our hearts torn from our chests again and again. Curse it for forcing us to endure.”
“Just because he’s a good leader doesn’t mean he’s a good person.”
“Don’t lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you’ll hurt them or they’ll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don’t let yourself feel anything?”
“It will get better. You’ll never forget them, not even after years. But one day, you’ll go a whole minute without feeling the pain. Then an hour. A day. That’s all you can ask for, really.”
“You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.”
“But I’m not strong. I’m weak, and I’m sick of pretending I’m not.”
“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be. Too much fear and you’re paralyzed. Too little fear and you’re arrogant.”
May death claim me first.
“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
“Hope is stronger than fear. It is stronger than hate.”
“I do not doubt, I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness’s daughter, and I have the Lioness’s strength.”
“Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until I am free of it.”
“Skies save me from the men in my life and all the things they think they know.”
“Fools pay attention to words in a fight. Warriors take advantage of them.”
“Once, I’d have wanted that. I’d have wanted someone to tell me what to do, to fix everything. Once, I’d have wanted to be saved.”
“The best lies come from the truth.”
“As long as there is life, there is hope.”
“Don’t look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.”
“You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”
“It should have been him dancing with you”
“Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
“First you will be unmade. First you will be broken.”
“First you will be unmade. First you will be broken.”
“Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone.”
“Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone.”
“Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.”
“You cannot walk in the shadows as long as I have and not become one.”
“The stars are so different when you’re free.”
“You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.”
“Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us. This should be interesting”
“Secrets are a snake’s way of doing business.”
“If your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making.”
“So long as you fight in the darkness, you stand in the light.”
“You will be chained to the darkness within yourself as surely as if chained to the walls of a prison cell.”
“But you’re not finished, your a masterpiece.”
“Love. I sigh. Love is joy coupled with misery, elation bound to despair. It is a fire that beckons me gently and then burns when I get too close. I hate love. I yearn for it. And it drives me mad.”
“True suffering lies in the expectation of pain as much as in the pain itself.”
“Would that we all knew the cracked terrain of each other’s broken hearts. Perhaps then, we would not be so cruel to those who walk this lonely world with us.”
“I don’t need to believe in the supernatural, not when there’s worse that roams the night.”
“Because sane plans never work, girl,only the mad ones do.”
“Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged, but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you,”
“Do you hear me? This is not our end.”
“Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.”
“Safety is an illusion never to trust.”
“You got there first my love, I envy you so, for how will I endure without you?”
“I wonder if my entire life will be a series of moments in which I realize I’m an idiot long after I can actually do anything about it. Will I ever feel like I know what I’m doing?”
“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
“The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.”
“Needing protection is not a weakness. Refusing to trust your allies is.”
“Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head.”
“Seeing the enemy as human. A general’s ultimate nightmare.”
“My song is not one of peace. It is one of failure and pain. My song is one of battle and blood, death and power. “
“Strange, how silence can speak as loudly as a scream.”
“Never mind. I am jealous. Tell me he’s old, at least? Or grouchy? Or maybe a bit stupid?”
“So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful.”
“Sometimes loneliness is a choice.”
“The stories we tell have power, of course. But the stories that go untold have just as much power.”
“When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.”
“Fear can be good. It can keep you alive. But don’t let it control you. Don’t let it sow doubts within you. When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.”
“You are full. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that’s a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you.”
“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.”
Aaron and Juliette - Shatter Me
“i want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. the one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. i want to be that kind of friend. the one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. i want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. i want to know where to touch you, i want to know how to touch you. i want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. yes, i do want to be your friend. i want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
may the odds be ever in your favor
The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood
I'm starting to wonder if this is what being in love is. Being okay with ripping yourself to shreds, so the other person can stay whole.
2022 books - book lovers by emily henry
That is what I'm looking for every time I flip to the back of a book, compulsively checking for proof that in a life where so many things have gone wrong, there can be beauty too. That there is always hope, no matter what.
book alphabet — i for inej ghafa
inej heard the name the dregs preferred for her whispered among their ranks – the wraith
[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]
And the ocean, calling out to us both. A song of freedom and longing
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.
Alina Starkov, Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
insp: @anthnybridgerton
JORDAN had been the first of the copies JORDAN HENNESSY had dreamt into being many years before. She kept Hennessy for herself. She gave away Jordan to this new girl. Because she was the first copy, and the oldest, Jordan was the most complex of all of the copies—even if Hennessy had dreamt the other girls with as much complexity as she had dreamt her, Jordan had over a decade of her own memories and experience. Sometimes Hennessy forgot that Jordan was actually her. Sometimes she thought Jordan forgot, too.