He buried his face in her hair, inhaling deeply. “How is it I smell like goose shit and cheap whiskey and you smell like you just ran through a meadow of wildflowers?”
“Ruthlessness.”
He breathed in again. “What is that scent? It reminds me of something, but I can’t place what.”
“The last child you tried to eat?”
“That must be it.”
V.E Schwab writes such dynamic and complex characters that are so unforgettable. Like they have so much range and spice to them,, they're just *chef's kiss*
I often find myself thinking about the gay little family in Vicious and the nerdy little romantics in Addie Larue and the bisexual Slytherpuffs in Shades of Magic. I wish I could give Kell, Lila, Addie, Henry, Victor, Syd, Mitch, Eli and Rhy a little forehead kiss and protect them.
The trope where a character has lots of scars and is given the opportunity to heal them but while the healer is doing their thing the character looks at a particular scar and goes "No, not this one." because it reminds them of something they survived will ALWAYS, ALWAYS SERVE😭
SCREAMING
Carry On, snowbaz // The King's Men, Andreil
Darklina as Taylor swift songs ~
"And it took you five whole minutes, to pack us up and leave me with it."
"You were my crown, Now I'm in exile seein' you out."
"Second, third, and hundredth chances, balancin' on breaking branches. Those eyes add insult to injury."
"You're not my homeland anymore, so what am I defendin' now?".
"All this time, we always walked a very thin line."
"My eclipsed sun."
"My twisted knife, my sleepless night, my win-less fight."
"Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in."
"You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score?"
"My kingdom come undone, you have beaten my heart."
"Weepin' in a sunlit room, and if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too."
"Did I deserve, babe? All the hell you gave me? 'Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you, till my dying day."
"You had to kill me but it killed you just the same."
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, 'cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave."
"And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"
"And you can aim for me heart, go for blood, But you would still miss me in your bones."
"And if you wanted me, you really should've showed."
"But we were something, don't you think so?"
"And if my wishes came true, it would've been you."
"You know the greatest loves of all time are over now?"
"If one thing had been different, would everything be different?"
"You and I walk a fragile line, I have known it all this time. But I never thought I'd live to see it break."
"He will try too take away my pain, and he just might make me smile. But the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead."
"But I still mean every word I said to you."
"I thought I had you figured out. Can't turn back now, I'm haunted."
Thinking about how "No one is ever the villain of their own story" and "We are all someone's monster" are opposites but the same.
GENTLE REMINDER that though all the other characters are amazing, ALINA STARKOV IS THE PROTAGONIST LET'S NOT FORGET THE QUEEN.
okay but remember when Nikolai Lantsov said~"There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still."
And when Tessa Grey said~"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
And when Feyre Archeron said~"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
And when Will Herondale said~"We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone."
And when Celaena Sardothien said~"I can survive well enough on my own- if given proper reading material."
Okay but when Nina Zenik said "She wouldn’t wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn’t be rid of." and when Eros said "Thanatos and I. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.” and when Jace Herondale said " To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed." and when Jason Grace said "Love was the most savage monster of all." and when Taylor Swift said "And I scream for whatever it's worth, 'I love you' ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?" and how the Song of Songs says “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”
Mood.
OH my god prince Phillip passed away?! So sad😦...