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read in 2022: the diviners by libba bray
Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?
There Tsar Koschei, he wastes away, poring over his pale gold.
MORS IRRUMAT OMNIA
Alina Starkov was our age when she was martyred. She was just a girl, and she sacrificed herself to save Ravka and destroy the Shadow Fold. There are people in your country who worship her as a Saint too.
ALL MY SHIPS: {3/∞}
↳ Alina x The Darkling
There are some things that can’t be changed with words. Some things have to be seen. They have to be felt.
literature family → alina starkov for @auroraslynch
i’m the sun summoner. it gets dark when i say it does.
it is sad, of course, to forget. but it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
MAKE ME CHOOSE: @selwynkane asked: feyre archeron or addie larue.
Never pray to the gods that answer after the dark.
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
And she is tired. Unspeakably tired. But there is no question she has lived.
fave books read in 2020 - the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab
Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades…. Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end… everyone wants to be remembered.
Victor was the guilty one. The Victor that he knew as dead, replaced by something cold and vicious. A twisted, violent version of himself. Victor had never been good, or sweet — he always had a sharp edge; Eli had been drawn to the metallic glint of it — but he’d never been this. A murderer. A monster.
I have worn nothing but blood and death for years. I have fought all your battles for you, just as you asked me. I have learned all the tricks you said I must learn. I have learned not to cry when I strangle a man. I have learned to lay my finger aside my nose and disappear. I have learned to watch everything die. I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic now, too. — Deathless, Cathyrenne M. Valente
Can we all just completely be done with Harry Potter please? Not just in a silly haha “read a new book” way. Just, please stop talking about Harry Potter. Every single possible thing that can be said about Harry Potter has already been said dozens and dozens of times. Talk about literally anything else. Anything! We can stop acknowledging that it exists now. Especially while it’s author actively campaigns to take away the civil rights of transgender people. Also, read a new fucking book!!
✦ @booksociety’s Children of the Night event: Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin I loved her. Despite everything. Despite the lies, the betrayal, the hurt. Despite the Archbishop and Morgane le Blanc. Despite my own brothers. I don’t know if she returned that love, and I didn’t care. If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.
GRISHAVERSE → ALEKSANDER MOROZOVA
↳He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you.
