#kosedit

[annebethchase]

Nikolai’s glib demeanor vanished. “I cannot take a wife while I am in this state. I cannot forge a marriage founded on lies.”

“Aren’t most?”

“Ever the romantic.”

“Ever practical.”

— KING OF SCARS, Chapter 2

[leah-jeffries]

"I cannot take a wife while I am in this state. I cannot forge a marriage founded on lies." "Aren't most?" "Ever the romantic." "Ever practical." –King of Scars, ch.ii

[rigelus]

Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.

[typcgraphyy]

— king of scars (2019)

[mayclair]

her romance with nikolai would never be bouquets of flowers and pretty declarations of love. it lived in the quiet they’d found in each other, in the hours of peace they were stringing together one by one.

[juliettecai]

MAKE ME CHOOSE. @percyokonjos​ asked: zoya or venka? + @grishaverseonline mission 08: favorite female characters (3/3)

be sweeter. be gentler. smile when you are suffering. zoya had ignored those lessons, often to her detriment. she was all thorns.

[qveenofwinter]

Endless list of favourite female characters: Zoya Nazyalensky (the Grishaverse)

“Zoya,” Alina said, drawing her back to the present, to her fear, to this wretched place. “You are not alone in this. And he can be beaten.”

“He is immortal.”

“Then why did he flinch when you brought down the storm?”

“It did nothing!”

“He sees something in you that frightens him. He always has. Why do you think he worked so hard to make us doubt ourselves? He was afraid of what we might become.”

We are the dragon. We do not lie down to die. Some tiny fraction of the fear in her receded.― Rule of Wolves, Ch. 17.

[kellmareshgf]

books read in 2021: king of scars duology by leigh bardugo

Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.

[aleds]

@grishaverseonline mission 08: favorite female characters + MAKE ME CHOOSE — @eviesoneills asked fang runin or zoya nazyalensky + @pansly asked kaz brekker or zoya nazyalensky

why me? she wondered. because you chose this path. because your king trusts you. because you are strong enough to survive the fall.

[daykevin]

nikolai lanstov

i have a gift for order and a taste for chaos

for @siirius

[theheart-isanarrow]

Zoya Nazyalensky: The Stormwitch

[leah-jeffries]

a king of scars/rule of wolves (nikolai duology) starter pack (aka easter eggs)

[maggieandbeth]

Why did you go to Alina?

Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo

[exy101]

@grishaverseonline mission 08: favourite female characters.

we learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. we learn to wring magic from the ordinary. 

[magicaliar]

- Leigh Bardugo

[juliettecai]

MAKE ME CHOOSE. @antinomes asked — zoya nazyalensky or jude duarte?

why me? she wondered. because you chose this path. because your king trusts you. because you are strong enough to survive the fall. cred. x. x.