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«i will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.»

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ruin and rising by leigh bardugo
«i will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.»
" When I first met him... he was the most gallant of lovers. He knew so many things. He delighted in sharing his knowledge. He had a castle full of treasures, and he took such pleasure in showing them, giving them to me. He was so gentle, and his skin felt like white silk against my skin. And I gave what I could give to one such as he. When we made love, it was like a flame: I felt utterly engulfed, utterly loved. Treasured. I have been with many poets, many dreamers... but his love alone was ice and fire. His eyes were stars. "
" You never knew the stars had a flavour until you first kissed him.
It turns out they taste like ambition and ancient fire desperation and self-destruction determination and dark matter and the mind-numbing fear of being left alone again. "
" The darkling's face was different - the sharp bones were there, the pale smooth skin, the glimmering gray eyes, but its shape was slightly altered, the scars given to him by the volcra gone. His long black hair almost brushed his collarbones. His voice, though - that cool glass voice of command - was the same. "
“ I tried not to notice the way he looked - his mussed hair, the shadowed ridges of his bare chest. He seemed so human, just a boy wounded in battle or maybe sparring.
Not a boy, I reminded myself, a MONSTER who has lived hundreds of years and taken hundreds of lives. ”
Kang Cheol, W : two worlds (2016)
Cha Eun-ho, Romance is a bonus book (2019)
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XVII
Aleksander and Nikolai, The Lion and the Fox
If someone asks for me someday, Say that I lived to love you Before you, I only existed — tired and with nothing to offer. My treasure, listen to my prayers I plead that you return, that you’ll want me again I know that you can’t love alone Perhaps, slowly, you can learn again.
— Amar pelos dois by Salvador Sobral
“[…] Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death,”
— John Keats, from Ode To A Nightingale
YA LIT MEME // EIGHT OTPS: [1/8] Alina Starkov & The Darkling
“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk. Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder. “Then I’d be alone, too,” he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.
@sixofcrowsnet heist: objects & symbols: morozova’s amplifiers
Ilya Morozova is the father of Baghra, and the grandfather of The Darkling. He was obsessed with finding Amplifiers which led him to seek out the white stag, the sea whip, & the fire bird.
“ DIVINITY will stain your fingers and mouth like a pomegranate. It will swallow you whole and spit you out, wine-dark and wanting. You will reach for it, AGAIN AND AGAIN, greedy fingers clutching at everything you can reach. The divine will curl its way through your veins and take you over, and it will not leave you quietly. I feel divinity in my bones like aching; LIKE FIRE. ”
“ You were standing there like an ANGRY GOD, counting out my sins just to cross them off. Saying that my tongue was too loud to trust and that my blood couldn't keep you . . .
My dear, you're not so innocent. You're fooling Heaven's gates, so you won't have to change. You're NO SAINT, you're NO SAVIOR. ”
𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 — a google doc template made by lyns !
this is a google doc template (the first i’m posting publicly), based on my personal docs. fairly simplistic, and designed with single muse blogs in mind, this baby has got it all —
- six rules slots - sections for basic information and a small biography - main and exclusive connections - verses
HOW TO USE:
open the link, select FILE in the upper lefthand corner of the browser, and then select MAKE A COPY.
VOILA !
ABOUT THE DOC:
- the top image is 800x150 pixels - the line breaks are 640x5 - you can replace them by clicking on them, then selecting REPLACE IMAGE in the toolbar to the far right
THINGS NOT TO DO:
- request access — it won’t be given, please just make the copy. - remove the credit and/or claim this template as your own. it might not look like much but i still spent time on it and would appreciate my work NOT being stolen!
the psd used on the graphics above is BLOODSUCKER by somresources, so please go check them out as well! they make incredible psds for free and deserve all the love!
if you decide to use this template, a like/reblog would be greatly appreciated, but is not required. i’d simply love to check them out and see how people are using it! if you have any questions or you notice anything that’s off/not working properly, feel free to shoot me a message!