#<- letter book my beloved

[cockroachesunite]

fitzportrait take 2!

(first attempt)

[mommyjude]

No one:

Not a single soul:

Cardan to Jude:

[hephaestusshield]

[dollvre]

my favorite cardan greenbriar quotes because I love him

spoilers for the folk of the air series

The Cruel Prince:

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often, it’s disgusting, and I can’t stop” (yes this is my only fav quote of cardan in the first book help)

The Wicked King:

“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”

“Kiss me. Kiss me until I'm sick of it”

"I want to tell you so many lies."

“I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone -truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.”

“Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god.”

"Sweet Jude. You're my dearest punishment."

"Marry me. Become the queen of Elfhame."

“I will lie down. If you lie with me”

The Queen of Nothing:

“She is my wife. The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.” (ICONIC)

“want you here by my side, as my queen”

“By you, I am forever undone”

“We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.”

“My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”

“It’s you I love,’ he says. ‘I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.’”

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.”

“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the Undersea. It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”

“I urge you: come be angry at a nearer distance.”

“I knew little else, but I always knew you.”

[nenoname]

opening up tbob for the first time in a while and then losing my shit cos this is the first thing i see

[unhingedbookclubs]

The King of Elfhame Is Mildly Inconvenienced

[wotchergiorgia]

prague, tuesday 17th august 1920

franz kafka, letters to milena

[text ID: do not let yourself be scared away from me - if it is at all possible in this unsteady world (where, when one is torn away, one is simply torn away and can't do anything about it) - even if I disappoint you once or a thousand times or right now or perhaps always right now.]

[spacedlexi]

skybound collectively unshitting their pants after acquiring the full rights to clementine, the coolest character in their own franchise

[fictionadventurer]

The Heir of Redclyffe is teaching me that what Little Women really needed was for the March sisters to have a clever, witty, sharp-tongued, disabled brother who was BFFs with Laurie.

[cockroachesunite]

Sir John Franklin to Lady Jane Franklin:

James Fitzjames to John Barrow Jr. (x) :

LOVE the juxtaposition between these letters, these men are having very different experiences

[mommyjude]

Cardan and Jude normally:

[urbutterfly03]

I can write hundreds of poems, no doubt,

Thousands of stories to let my heart out,

Books if you care to take a look,

About my feelings, like pages in a book.

If my thoughts could speak your name,

It’d echo in my mind, always the same.

I try to catch the words, but they flee,

When emotions grow, it's hard to see.

So when we're near, don’t expect me to talk,

For my mind is lost, unable to walk.

But if you'd read the words I penned,

The poems, the letters I never did send,

You’d know my love is deep and true,

And all I ask is to share it with you.

-Nabi🦋

[please-dont-pet-the-okapi]

3, 6, 12 for the book asks?

3 is answered here!

6: Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

I started on Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization this year, but as of today I'm still barely into the first chapter. I've heard really good things about it, so I'm disappointed that I'm having such a hard time getting into it.

12: Any books that disappointed you?

Beyond the list of books I didn't like this year, God's Gift to Women by Eric Ludy disappointed me in part because I felt it was falsely advertised. The subtitle of the book frames it as a book about how to be a godly man (which. I am well aware I am not the target demographic of this book, but the book was recommended to me and it was free), but it was really more of dating advice for Christian men. That's not to say that's all it was (a lot of it was good advice for any Christian), or that all of the advice was bad. Most of it was pretty sound advice, but the author admitted that much of his advice assumed that the reader was called to marriage, and that kind of thing bothers me.

[jazelock]

8 Books I Read Growing Up: A Poem

"The Intrusion," Banquets of the Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov || The Witches - Roald Dahl || Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie || The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein || The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde || The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien || "A Scandal in Bohemia," The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle || The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King

[mzannthropy]

I finished The Count of Monte Cristo! I have so many feels, but I'm not writing them out here, bc I don't think I can express them. Valentine and Max have my heart. And I hope Edmond and Haydee will find the peace and love they deserve!

[rellasnowheenim]

Because he was right: sometimes people came into your life for brief moments, and changed you forever. I think he was my person.

And he didn't even exist. He came from the mind of an author I'd admired so much—who had changed my life with her books, so of course I would fall for a man she created. His backstory, his witty banter, his minty eyes, even the way he smelled.

—Ashley Poston, from A Novel Love Story