until the very end.

[keystone-asterism]

So wise so young, they say, do never live long

[keystone-asterism]

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

[quotemadness]

We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

Haruki Murakami (via quotemadness)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

There’s always a sadness running all through you. — All so natural. — I trust it, you know. I trust that sadness.

Alfred Stieglitz, from a letter to Georgia O’Keeffe featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[sorrowmaven]

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

Albert Camus, from “Absurd Creation,” The Myth of Sisyphus (via draugminaion)

[luthienne]

You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless (via draugminaion)

[liminalhorror-deactivated201812]

(…) without tenderness, we are in hell.

Adrienne Rich in X (Twenty-One Love Poems), from The Dream of a Common Language (via writingletterstoshakespeare)

[treasurednature]

[keystone-asterism]

"The qualities that each of the founders valued were far more specific than they are widely acknowledged to be." Lucius drew his fingertips idly through the flame of one of the candles, watching the shadows waver across the table. "For example, Godric Gryffindor valued not courage, but a certain kind of courage - a thoughtless, physical, headstrong kind that causes Gryffindors to rush in where angels fear to tread. In every generation, this kind of courage produces a handful of heroes and a battalion of canon fodder. Godric himself was not blind to that fact, which people would do well to remember when they denounce Slytherins as manipulative."

Mirabella, Shadow of his Wings

[keystone-asterism]

“Harry has a lot of power of his own,” Percy argued. “And a large dose of luck.” “Potter was, and as far as I know still is, a sledgehammer. A malleus maleficarum, if you will,” Lucius said. “Brute force and a tenacious refusal to die will get one surprisingly far, but he hasn’t the intellect to match against Tom Riddle’s, which is why it’s fortunate for him that there is even less of Tom Riddle left in Voldemort now than there was when Potter’s parents were killed.”

Mirabella, Shadow of his Wings

[dracolucien]

“Potter, do you understand what you are?” Draco asked softly. “You’re like a force of nature. You change everything you touch, even if you don’t mean to. Everything around you gets pulled into your orbit whether it wants to be or not. You change the dynamics of a room just by walking into it. You change the universe just by standing still and being who you are. It’s a rather amazing thing to watch.”

Shadow of His Wings, Mirabella (via dracolucien)

[keystone-asterism]

[kylo-renperor]

[keystone-asterism]

first day of school.

[watcheroftheskies1335]

[keystone-asterism]

[wellconstructedsentences]

Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fabulous creatures like the sphinx who were composed of strikingly incongruous parts, because the ancients considered the appearance of such beings to be a sign of some impending supernatural event. Monsters, like angels, functioned as messengers and heralds of the extraordinary. They served to announce impending revelation, saying, in effect, “Pay attention; something of profound importance is happening.

My Words to Victor Frankenstein by Susan Stryker  (via conceptvals)

[quotemadness]

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends.

Euripides (via quotemadness)