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pure cringe, books and TS

[doubledaybooks]

“Once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate.

Their romance disrupted the flow of time.

It tangled the strings of fortune into knots.

 The stars conspired and separated the two.

For a while they breathed easier in the heavens.

Time continued so flow as it always had,

Or perhaps imperceptibly slower.

Fate wove together the paths that were meant to intertwine,

Though perhaps a string was missed here and there.

 But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings

No matter how the stars might wish it so.

Occasionally Fate can pull itself together again

And Time is always waiting.”

– From a story whispered by Dorian to Zachary

Welcome to our magical tarot card countdown to Erin Morgenstern’s THE STARLESS SEA, featuring art by the amazing Erica Williams. Follow @doubledaybooks and @erinmorgenstern to keep up with the day’s themes.

[galaxiestern]

i relate to addie larue because i would, too, live 300 dull years because i’m petty

[galaxiestern]

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.

Until Adeline wakes up.

[superlark]

i’m reading the poppy war right now

[peachdoxie]

Lightsong:

[seijohsremade]

deathless by catherynne m. valente (x)

that’s how you get deathless, volchitsa. walk the same tale, over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you’d have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

[drogonqueen]

A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

[t-swift]

[souplups]

taylor swift wrote folklore for all the people who loved taylor swift as a child but instead of getting married at eighteen they grew up to be depressed and full of yearning 

[acotarxtogx]

[ironguld]

”What’s a queen without her king? Well, historically speaking more powerful.”

- Virginia au Augustus

[correct-redrising-quotes-blog]

Chapter one - Slave

[achilleius]

“I killed their pack leader,” Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. “Don’t worry, I wouldn’t fit in your skin.”

[kuweiyulbo]

@booksociety event: underrated faves  ——   R E D   R I S I N G  by pierce brown

“What do you live for?” I ask her suddenly. “Is it for me? Is it for family and love? Or is it for some dream?” 

“It’s not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”

“I live for you,” I say sadly.

She kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”

[monstress]

I do not understand “damned.” You are. And because you are, you can walk where you will, into peace, oblivion, or pits of fire, but you will always choose.

[loved-in-shadesofwrong]

the foxes' fight song is What does the fox say. you can't change my mind

[reallucielchoipleasestandup]

Feyre must’ve been high to think that she and Tamlin could ever work out but that can’t be right. That would make her a high lady and there is no such thing.