#chaptersnet

[daphnevincent]

hell bent by leigh bardugo

that was the problem with love. it was hard to unlearn, no matter how harsh the lesson.

[henry-marchbanks]

quotes from THE SECRET HISTORY by DONNA TARTT

[wylanvenk]

The Sunshine Court ; Jean's tiny miracles

"What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It's so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time." "I don't believe in miracles," Jean said. "I have enough faith for us both," Renee promised. "I know one will find you sooner or later."

[alicenthighstower]

kitay was pure. he was the best person she had ever known. kitay shouldn’t know how it felt to call a god of vengeance. kitay was the last thing in the world that was still fundamentally kind and good, and she’d die before she corrupted that.

for @henwilsons, the other half of my soul.

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

«Life, after all, has not slipped free of its netting. There is no such life, slipping free: life is itself the netting, holding people in place, making sense of things. It is not possible to tear away the constraints and simply carry on a senseless existence. People, other people, make it impossible. But without other people, there would be no life at all. Judgement, reproval, disappointment, conflict: these are the means by which people remain connected to one another.»

[permanentreverie]

literature moodboards: all for the game trilogy by nora sakavic

"remember this feeling. this is the moment you stop being the rabbit."

[lunaathorne]

every sapphic book i love → this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.

[capulets]

Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air. — The Secret History, Donna Tartt.

[dallaswinstons]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PERCY JACKSON

Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

[skylessknights]

CHAPTER FIVE → THE SONG OF ACHILLES

His spear, as he began the first pass, moved faster than my eye could follow. It whirled, flashing forward, reversed, then flashed behind. The shaft seemed to flow in his hands, the dark gray point flickered like a snake’s tongue. His feet beat the ground like a dancer, never still. I could not move, watching. I almost did not breathe. His face was calm and blank, not tensed with effort. His movements were so precise I could almost see the men he fought, ten, twenty of them, advancing on all sides. He leapt, scything his spear, even as his other hand snatched the sword from its sheath. He swung out with them both, moving like liquid, like a fish through the waves.

[hidekomoon]

books read in 2024: frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, mary wollstonecraft shelley

[daphnevincent]

ONE DARK WINDOW

a heart of gold can still turn to rot. what he wrote, what he did, was all done for naught. his cards are but weapons, his kingdom now cruel. shepherd of folly, king of the fools.

[henry-marchbanks]

but beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.

[diangelosnico]

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. (...) Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful nasty ways.

[alicenthighstower]

happy birthday, @enviies !

you think, as you walk away from le cirque des rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. you are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

"... When you decided you needed a mask to fit into the world, you chose one that was sunny instead of scowly..."