My Soul Is Yours

Kalyn Lady. Instagram: kalynlady Favorite Books: The Winner's Curse. Red Rising Trilogy. Unwind Dystology. Life of Pi. The Host. Stolen. Tarnish. The Forest of Hands and Teeth. The Winner's Crime. The Infinite Sea. The Wrath and The Dawn.

[jasmin-au-bellona]

“Don’t care about what others think of you. Most of them can’t even think anyway.”

- Adrius au Augustus/Jackal

[odysseuhs]

I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn’t survive even looking at it | for @peaceloveandhappyhippies  

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[lnejnina]

“You’ve never had a talent for deception.” Zoya knew he was goading her, but her pride pricked anyway. “How can you be so sure? Perhaps the list of my talents is so long you just haven’t gotten to the end.”

[die-rosastrasse]

The mysterious beauty of old books and places 🍂

[neitherheavenorhell]

“I can’t do that.” “Why?” Arin was hot with humiliation, hating himself for having asked. The cut burned in his cheek. “It’s not so different than what you would have chosen before. When you kissed me in your carriage on Firstwinter, you thought to keep me your secret. If you thought of anything. I would have been one of those special slaves, the ones called for at night when the rest of the house is sleeping. Well? Isn’t that how it was?”

[peterkavinsky]

Kestrel woke. She’d fallen asleep. The floor of the moving wagon creaked beneath her cheek. She hid her face in her hands. She was glad that her dream had ended where it did. She wouldn’t have wanted to see the rest, the part where the girl’s father discovered that she’d given her heart to a lowly thief, and wished her dead, and cast her out.

[achilleius]

Well, are you ready, Lada Dragwlya, daughter of the dragon?  Not Dragwlya, she said. Lada Dracul.

[frostkhold]

[murphyyss]

LESTAT / interview with the vampire - 1994

[carswells]

and this, poetry like this, was all we had to preserve our stories, our music, our history.

[achilleius]

read in 2018 — the fallen world, laura thalassa.

a hundred years of life to become whatever it is you want. and a hundred years of death to become whatever it is they want.

[fyeahmyths]

Leshy, a spiritual deity of forests in Slavic mythology,

[juliacaesaris-deactivated202109]

HISTORY MEME | men [2/10]

Julius Caesar (c. July 12 or 13, 100 BC to March 15, 44 BC) was a politically adept and popular leader of the Roman Republic who significantly transformed what became known as the Roman Empire by greatly expanding its geographic reach and establishing its imperial system. Allegedly a descendant of Trojan prince Aeneas, Caesar’s birth marked the beginning of a new chapter in Roman history. By age 31, Caesar had fought in several wars and become involved in Roman politics. After several alliances, he became dictator of the Roman Empire, a rule that lasted for just one year before his death.

[fyeahmyths]

@fyeahmyths​ spring myths event day one: north american deity →  xochiquetzal

aztec goddess of fertility, beauty, and female sexual power

[juliacaesaris-deactivated202109]

HISTORY MEME | relationships [1/7]

↳ Kleopatra VII, Greek Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, and Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome

“As incandescent as was her personality, Cleopatra was every bit Caesar’s equal as a coolheaded, clear eyed pragmatist, though what passed on his part as strategy would be remembered on hers as manipulation.”                                — Stacey Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life    (for @tiny-librarian​!) 

[aly-naith]

cards: Persephone

[read-an-interesting-book]

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bonesetting—or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that she cares about anything more than her dream of becoming a doctor.

Fresh off an accidentally whirlwind tour of Europe that she spent evading highwaymen and pirates with her brother Monty, Felicity has returned to England with one goal in mind—to enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science. But then a small window of hope opens. Felicity is offered a chance to break into this male-dominated world, although it might financially ruin her.

For the last year, she has been depending on the generosity of Callum Doyle, a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh. But then he had to go and propose marriage. Felicity can think of nothing less appealing than giving up her career aspirations to become someone’s wife. Luckily, a mysterious young woman will pay handsomely for help with a heist—not for jewels, but for stolen sea charts that belong to the British Navy.

Despite the danger, Felicity’s tempted by the money, but she never expects to be swept up in a perilous quest that leads her from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.