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juliaxyn

everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

con-alas-de-angeles

“Unfortunately, you can’t always be an open book. Some secrets aren’t meant to be exposed.”

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“How do you know if you love someone?”

“When you try to imagine a world without that person, and can’t, then you know it’s love.”

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“When you feel dead inside, you inevitably reach for things that make you feel alive. Pain. Adrenaline. Drugs. That’s how vices are born. That’s how you became my obsession. You are what makes me feel alive. Like a breath of air after drowning.”

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Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love. It doesn't matter what the wold thinks of us. Because we're the composers, the conductors of our own fate, and we write the notes to a beautiful, dark melody that no one else can hear.”

Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

aliteraryprincess

January to June

Well here we are halfway through this truly bizarre year. These are my six top fantasy books I’ve read so far, not including rereads. And yes, there are two by Jo Walton because she’s awesome. I actually held off on reading a third book by her because I wanted to save one for the second half of the year haha. Or What You Will doesn’t actually come out until July, but I was lucky enough to get an ARC.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) by Seanan McGuire

Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) by Holly Black

Or What You Will by Jo Walton

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

swainlake

i’ll make them love me

dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles

your life is not an optimization problem

dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.