enchanted

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.

No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.

Harry held Connor to his chest with one hand and grabbed my free hand with the other. “I am absolutely positive that I need you more than I’ve ever needed another living soul,” he said. “The only exception being—” “Connor,” I said. We both smiled. For the rest of our lives, we would say that. The only exception to absolutely everything was Connor.

“Of course we did,” Emerie said, interlacing her hand with Gwyn’s, then Nesta’s, and squeezing tightly. “It’s what sisters do.”

“The Modern Faerie Tales” (by @hollyblack) fanart

Many thanks again to Holly Black for the fantastic source material!

Soraya and Parvenah from Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust.

serpent king has joined instagram…

“I don’t want just a night or a week or a month with you. I want you all the time. I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe.” 

THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO

People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.

“I don’t think I can do it alone,“ I said. I had a feeling the Summoning wasn’t really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

The Midnight Lie (2020)

nirrim and sid from The Midnight Lie (which you should definitely read for some lesbian excellence)

Among the stars! Feyre from A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas!

@novelsnet​ event 05: romance — you deserve each other by sarah hogle          “But you still haven’t said you love me.“          "That’s not true.”          "You haven’t.“          "I say it all the time, I just say it very, very quietly. I tell you when you’re in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. I tell you when you’ve got headphones on. I say it after you shut the door behind you. I say it in my head every time you look at me.”