It's the first of December and I'm trying to bring out my "in my heart is a Christmas tree farm, where the people would come/to dance under sparkling lights" feels but the allure of "hey December, guess I'm feeling unmoored/can't remember what I used to fight for" is magneticš
āSheās gone now,ā Evelyn says. āThe love of my life is gone, and I canāt just call her and say Iām sorry and have her come back. Sheās gone forever. I regret every second I didnāt spend with her. I regret every stupid thing I did that caused her an ounce of pain. I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, āIām in love with Celia St. James!ā and let them crucify me for it.ā
Hear that??? THAT'S THE SOUND OF MY HEART BEING SHATTERED BY THIS BOOK FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME-
"Anyway, I found this part of a letter Hamilton wrote to Laurens, and it made me think of you. And me, I guess:
"The truth is I am an unlucky honest man, that speak my sentiments to all and with emphasis. I say this to you because you know it and will not charge me with vanity. I hate CongressāI hate the armyāI hate the worldāI hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves; I could almost except you ā¦"
Thinking about history makes me wonder how Iāll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that.
History, huh? Bet we could make some.
Affectionately yours, slowly going insane,
Alex, First Son of Founding Father Sacrilege."
āHe thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.āĀ
~Feyre Archeron
Once, there was a young prince who was born in a castle. His mother was a princess scholar, and his father was the most handsome, feared knight in all the land. As a boy, people would bring him everything he could ever dream of wanting. The most beautiful silk clothes, ripe fruit from the orangery.
At times, he was so happy, he felt he would never grow tired of being a prince. He came from a long, long line of princes, but never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body. When he was small, his family would smile and laugh and say he would grow out of it one day. But as he grew, it stayed where it was, red and visible and alive. He didnāt mind it very much, but every day, the familyās fear grew that the people of the kingdom would soon notice and turn their backs on the prince.
His grandmother, the queen, lived in a high tower, where she spoke only of the other princes, past and present, who were born whole.
Then, the princeās father, the knight, was struck down in battle. The lance tore open his armor and his body and left him bleeding in the dust. And so, when the queen sent new clothes, armor for the prince to parcel his heart away safe, the princeās mother did not stop her. For she was afraid, now: afraid of her sonās heart torn open too.
So the prince wore it, and for many years, he believed it was right.
Until he met the most devastatingly gorgeous peasant boy from a nearby village who said absolutely ghastly things to him that made him feel alive for the first time in years and who turned out to be the most mad sort of sorcerer, one who could conjure up things like gold and vodka shots and apricot tarts out of absolutely nothing, and the princeās whole life went up in a puff of dazzling purple smoke, and the kingdom said, āI canāt believe weāre all so surprised.ā
I love it when dark, brooding and sadistic fictional guys have a soft spot for fashion.
THIS ESPECIALLY HOW MARY DIED FOR SHERLOCK BECAUSE SHE KNEW JOHN NEEDED HIM AND JEM WAS OKAY WITH DYING BECAUSE HE KNEW WILL AND TESSA WOULD TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER I CANNOT-
ok but
Herongraystairs and Sherlock x John x Mary r so similar
there r few inconsistencies ofc but like. yeah.
āHello, Sam,ā she breathed onto the river breeze.
āI miss you,ā she said. āEvery day, I miss you. And I wonder what you would have made of all this. Made of me. I thinkāI think you would have been a wonderful king. I think they would have liked you more than me, actually.ā Her throat tightened. āI never told youāhow I felt. But I loved you, and I think a part of me might always love you. Maybe you were my mate, and I never knew it. Maybe Iāll spend the rest of my life wondering about that. Maybe Iāll see you again in the Afterworld, and then Iāll know for sure. But until then ⦠until then Iāll miss you, and Iāll wish you were here.ā
if this isn't the most painful eulogy and confession I've ever read.
But wasnāt that what every girl dreamed? That sheādĀ wake and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny? Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you werenāt chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.
Inej Ghafa, The Crooked Kingdom
Inej Ghafa is listening to Renegade by Taylor Swift.