I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.
~Patroclus, The Song Of Achilles
When taylor swift said"Too young to know it gets better/ I'll be summer sun for you forever/ Forever winter if you go".
*screams*
“You could have been a ballerina,” Mme. Padva remarks to Celia. “You are quite good on your feet.”
“I am good off my feet as well,” Celia says.
DID SHE JUST?????🤨🤨🤨MISS MA'AM
When Baghra said "Know that I loved you, Know that it wasn't enough." to her son before she died. That was true pain.
I love it when characters say "Please don't punch me for this" or "Live long enough to hate me for this" before kissing their love interest IT'S THE SUPERIOR ENEMIES TO LOVERS TROPE
When I was reading the part where Alina does that vision-mind travel-connection thing with the Darkling for the first time I was like ugh this is gonna be the same old him making her feel stupid but DAMN
The "You might make me a better man." "And you might make me a monster." !!!! The "We would be equals till the day I dared to disagree with you." !!!! The "You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience...But I am an apt pupil." !!!!!
Imagining that conversion happening in the show.
Brb screaming into the void.
I think the way ruin and rising ends is really beautiful. Just hear me out lmao-
"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that." is such a gentle, peaceful ending. Yes, alina is a very strong character who should've gotten a life filled with more adventures. But in the end, she got to build something that meant the world to her. She got a quiet life after all the fighting and war was over. She deserved it. It's a realistic ending, because sometimes characters choose to rest and be happy and that's okay :).
DARKLINA RIGHTS THOUGH SMH
HELLO THE SCENE WHERE INEJ IS PERFORMING AND SOMEONE MAKES A RACIST COMMENT AND ZOYA GOES "SHE'S SULI" AND THEN AND THEN LATER WHEN INEJ AND ZOYA FIGHT THE VOLCRA TOGETHER>>>>>>
I Stan our two Suli Queens.
Don't read the last page
But I stay when it's hard or it's wrong or you're making mistakes
I want your midnights
But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you.
~New Years Day, Taylor swift.
“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
~Feyre Archeron
“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too.”
“Really?”
He nodded slowly. “They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for."
~ Kaz Brekker, The Crooked Kingdom.