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[lilabard]

fave books read in 2018 - 7/10   ↳ children of blood and bone by tomi adeyemi

You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn’t keeping us alive. it was thinking we’d never fight back.

[threeseagrass]

books read in 2018: children of blood and bone by tomi adeyemi

As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.

[edenprime]

characters of color meme | leads | 1.5 | zélie adebola :: legacy of orïsha

they don’t hate you, my child. they hate what you were meant to become.

[rrrhysand]

books I read in 2018: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

“You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn’t keeping us alive. It was thinking we’d never fight back.”

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[missbard]

BOOKS READ IN 2018: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

“As long as we don't have magic, they will never treat us with respect. They need to know we can hit them back. If they burn our homes, we burn theirs, too.”

[majizelie]

Children of Blood and Bone series quotes// (1/?)

“Y o u  k n o w  h o w  t o  win” S h e  s a y s.  “J u s t  m a k e  s u r e  y o u   k n o w  w h e n  t o fight.”

[versaielles]

“I give you the strength to fight, but you all must learn the strength of restraint.” Mama turns to me, shoulders pinned back. “You must protect those who can’t defend themselves. That is the way of the staff.”  — Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

[rozaprior]

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

”No matter how much I crave peace, the gods have other plans.”