#novel quote

[maraadrake]

"After all, affection always came with a price tag. I just didn't know what he would cost me yet." -Noelle (Danger Between Us)

[sweetflutereads]

“Time is big….A gray and relentless net, in which every second of my life is captured…. it stores everything up and never really allows anything to end. But if time exists only in my head, and I’m the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time.”

— Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

[strangesheelf]

Ruan Baijie, who was dressed in her pajamas and was sprawled on top of the beddings, wriggled and whined, “Qiushi, it’s so cold, ah.” Lin Qiushi was still in the process of scrutinizing the curtains. He didn’t turn his head around after hearing her complaint. “Wear more clothes if you’re cold.” Ruan Baijie: “… You don’t have a girlfriend, do you?” Lin Qiushi was utterly baffled. “Girlfriend? Why do I need a girlfriend?”

Kaleidoscope of Death, Xi Zixu

Chapter 3

[pg13judaskiss]

I saw myself in the glass, in my mourning-dress, a faded, hollow-eyed vision. Yet I thought little of the wan spectacle. The blight, I believed, was chiefly external: I still felt life at life's sources.

Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte

[raspberry-radiation]

I was traumatized by Flowers for Algernon and was forced to watch something about it again recently and just had to make this for it. It was such a good story but it was heart breaking and I cry at the thought of these two. Please enjoy this art and remember with me if you, too, know the pain of this story.

[productive-potato]

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[academia-cafe]

"A woman only needs herself to survive."

- Delphine Escoffier from White Truffles in Winter

[warriors-last-words]

me inviting the Witch in The Forest for a night out