“I closed my eyes, and when I did I imagined myself a snow-maiden, a swan, something out of a story, something that was so unreal it could not be harmed.”
— Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn (Harper Voyager, 2022)
juniper & thorn by ava reid
“there was something sick in me, something wrong. even baby birds knew how to shriek, even kittens knew how to mewl, even puppies knew how to whine. papa had told me i hadn’t even cried when he’d pulled me from between my mother’s thighs… my eldest sister was right; i would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. but no one had ever told me that i was allowed to scream.”
"We need a demo man."
"You're still on that?"
"I just brought it up tonight."
"Jesper, you ask for an explosive expert on every job."
He's already rooting for Wylan.
All of it.
I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.
“That’s what mortal means,“ I say with a sigh that I don’t have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.”
@folkoftheair asked: tid or tfota?
the bomb: and what do we do when we feel that way?
jude: murder.
the bomb: NO
jude duarte | the cruel prince by holly black
“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcel me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.”
@sixofcrowsnet heist: backstory
There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.