[mararuins]

“This is what people who have never wanted to die don’t understand: the worst thing for those of us who do is feeling like we have to live when we don’t want to.”

[mararuins]

@michellehodkin listen to this song and tell me this isn’t Mara and that she isn’t singing about her murderous tendencies and Noah ^_^ 

[mararuins]

Noah Shaw aesthetics

damn it’s hard to write with different handwriting,I haven’t done it since high school thanks for the sketch @bellatrix-orion

[mararuins]

 Apparently she judged the souls of the dead by weighing their hearts against a feather; if she deemed a soul unworthy, it was sent to the underworld to be consumed—by this bizarre crocodile-lion-hippopotamus creature, it seems.

  A man knelt before me; he looked familiar but I did not know his name. He withdrew the feather from my cheek and placed it in one of my hands. My thumb caressed the edges. It was so soft. “Show me what is in the other,” he said kindly. I obeyed him. Uncurled my fingers to reveal what was inside. It was Noah’s heart.

[mararuins]

              You will love him to ruins...

[mararuins]

I made tiny animation with my friends cosplaying as Mara and Noah ^_^ Mara( @bellatrix-orion )    I   Noah( @thomastwin )

[mararuins]

“Ah,” Jamie says. “We have reached the Brooding YA Hero section of the book.” “The first of them,anyway” I say. “I could brood forever.”

[mararuins]

do me like one of your french girls by Mad Girl

[mararuins]

spooning has never been this poetic,literally by Mad Girl

[mararuins]

To slay the dragon. But you fell in love with it instead.

[hrmione]

Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story. R e t r i b u t i o n   h a s   a r r i v e d.

[liqhtwould-blog]

the upcoming of mara dyer + random quotes

[blanchardd]

[wordscanbeenough]

seduce me with your book collection

[deathcabforme]

That’s how it happened in Mara Dyer

[not-inthatway]

Exactly

[mararuins]

The villain is the hero of her own story.

[emptinesswecreated]

ret·ri·bu·tion

[burgesskim-deactivated20170411]

MARA DYER stuff and things ; books

[michellehodkin-deactivated20231]

I adore this, and since I just accidentally deleted a question in which I was asked about references and allusions in the trilogy (mainly, which books I mention), I’m going to post them here instead. (I’ve got Retribution on the brain, tho’, so if I forget to mention one, forgive me!). Some of these are explicitly mentioned, others are hinted to.

Unbecoming: Lolita (Nabokov), The Plague (Camus), Bend Sinister (Nabokov), Jurassic Park (Crichton), Three Theban Plays (Sophocles) The Velveteen Rabbit (Williams), Curious George (Rey), Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Harry Potter (Rowling), Divergent (Roth)

Evolution: Pale Fire (Nabokov) Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov), Frankenstein (Shelley), Justine (de Sade), The Torture Garden (Mirbeau), The Mortal Instruments (Clare), Twilight (Meyer), The Will to Power (Nietzsche)

Those…are not books you often see listed together, I’m realizing. One of the things I knew I wanted to do when I started writing the trilogy was to allude to books that don’t get a lot of air time in YA already. Pride & Prejudice and Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and Romeo and Juliet are incredible, but when I was a teenager, I wouldn’t have counted them among my favorites. I wanted to mention the books and authors I adored, then and now, instead.

(This is also why there are references to contemporary YA lit in the trilogy–see e.g. Harry Potter, Twilight, the Mortal Instruments and Divergent. For me, I felt like I couldn’t authentically write teenagers living in our world who wouldn’t be aware of those stories, particularly because of the self-awareness of the characters and the self-referential nature of the series.)