simple little bookworm

INSIDE SHANE HOLLANDER'S PHONE

Ilya - Shane

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE ↳book > screen “Baby.” It’s become a thing: baby. He’s knows it’s become a thing. He’s slipped up and accidentally said it a few times, and each time, Henry positively melts.

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“Hello?” It’s Henry’s voice, sweet and posh and shaky and confused, and relief knocks the wind out of him.

He hears Henry’s exhale over the line. “Hi, love. Are you okay?”

He laughs wetly, amazed. “Are you kidding me? I’m fine, I’m fine. Are you okay?”

“Just hold on until I get there, we’re gonna figure this out.” “I will.” “I’m coming. I’ll be there soon.”

Henry exhales a wet, broken laugh. “Please, do hurry.”

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE ↳book > screen

“Hello?” 

It’s Henry’s voice, sweet and posh and shaky and confused, and the relief knocks the wind out of him.

“Sweetheart.”

He heard Henry’s exhale over the line. “Hi, love. Are you okay?”

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Alex’s laugh comes out a half sob, and it’s impossible to know if he moves first or if Henry does, but they meet in the middle of the room, Henry’s arms around Alex’s neck, swallowing him up. If Henry’s voice on the phone was a tether, his body is the gravity that makes it possible, his hand gripping the back of Alex’s neck a magnetic force, a permanent compass north. 

RED WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023) dir. Matthew Lopez

"Hey, have I told you lately that you’re brave? I still remember what you said to that little girl in the hospital about Luke Skywalker: “He’s proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is.” Sweetheart, you’re proof too."

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)

It’s unpredictable and it’s intoxicating and it’s fun, because Alex has never met a challenge he didn’t love, and he—well, Henry is a challenge, head to toe, beginning to end.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue (p. 198)

I fell in love with a person who happens to be a man, and that man happens to be a prince. He has captured my heart and made my life immeasurably better.

"Henry gives as good as he gets, hooking one knee around the back of Alex's thigh for leverage, delicate royal sensibilities nowhere in the cut of his teeth. Alex has been learning for a while Henry isn't what he thought, but it's something else to feel it this close up, the quiet burn in him, the pent-up person under the perfect veneer who tries and pushes and wants." — RED WHITE & ROYAL BLUE, page 133

And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back. Can you believe it? Sometimes, even now, I still can't. [insp] for @lilythesilly

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)

I am no MOTHER

I am no BRIDE

I am KING

not a day goes by where i don't think of ilya rozanov loving shane hollander