#favourite quotes

[gabebell12fi]

There's no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word "NO" scrawled over and over in charred blood.

[the-undoubted-queen]

“Or you can offer me something I want more than I want to hold your head underwater until the last of your air is gone.” Attolia had thought her choice was to be conscious or unconscious when she breathed in the black water that would kill her; she couldn’t imagine what Eugenides might want more than that. It was all she would have dreamed of in his place. “I want to be king of Attolia,” he said.

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

[krazykriminal]

"It's not enough to be non-racist, you have to be anti-racist."

—Angela Davis

[heidihexx]

To men, a maze. I could have show’d them all they wish’d to see at Bear Alley.

That a killer need not lift her long, delicate hand. She need not touch him as he dies.

There are other, wiser ways: vials and victuals.

The apothecary was a friend to all of us women, the brewer of our secret: the men are dead because of us.

Only, it did not happen as intend’d.

It was not her fault, the apothecary. It was not even mine.

I lay blame unto my husband, and his thirst for that which was not meant for him.

[the-undoubted-queen]

“This is the stupidest plan that I have ever in my career participated in,” he said. “I love stupid plans,” said Eugenides.

[les-fleur]

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

[colors-of-joy]

"Carve it. Carve it into your flesh. Carve it into the land. Carve it into the sea. Carve it into your spoils. Carve it into your enemies. Carve it. Carve it. Carve what you feel into me. Carve that encounter into me." 

- Vinland Saga - season 2 - EP 23 (adapted from the Manga by the amazing brilliant mangaka Makoto Yukimura-sensei 🫶🏽)

Interesting very good analysis of the words : Here

The poem from the anime (contains spoilers**)