Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston) / The Raven King (Maggie Stiefvater) / The Raising (Steven dos Santos) / On the Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta) / Always and Forever, Lara Jean (Jenny Han) / They Both Die at the End (Adam Silvera)
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.
She did not waver in her path, towards a place underground, down, down into the merciful dark, in a basement where a man with black curls flecked with starry silver would say her name like a confession…
“I wonder if there’s a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn’t yours anymore.”
@fictiondaily event 1:minimalistic-Circe by Madeline Miller
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
languages aren’t just made of words. they’re modes of looking at the world. they’re the keys to civilization. and that’s knowledge worth killing for. — babel, by r.f. kuang
@ravencyclenet event v: relatable characters — ADAM PARRISH.
being adam parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. he was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. the most important thing to adam parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. this was the important thing. it had always been the important thing. this was what it was to be adam.
the unwritten rules hung in the air, reinforced by every passing moment that blood wasn’t spilled. no one would lift a weapon. no one would fight or flee. just this night, just this moment, they had entered a liminal space where their past and their future did not matter, where they could be the children they used to be.
