al;

“You know the rest of us feel that way all the time.”

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

these words people threw around—humans, monsters, heroes, villains—to victor it was all just a matter of semantics.

↳ "am i a troubled kid? yeah. you could say that."

Red, White and Royal Blue ↳ locations

i’m nobody’s sidekick.

insp. by @federicocesaris 🤍 

some things are too terrible to grasp at once. other things— naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror— are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself— quite to one’s surprise— in an entirely different world.

Read in 2021: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.

Harry Potter A-Z Challenge | ozzzymandius vs ibuzoo ↳ N → N.E.W.T.s 

↳ “We’re staying together,“ he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.”

- dedicated to @fleurrdelacour​

names & words

There is no good word for the opposite of lonesome. One might be tempted to suggest togetherness or contentment , but the fact that these two other words bear definitions unrelated to each other perfectly displays why lonesome cannot be properly mirrored. It does not mean solitude, nor alone, nor lonely, although lonesome can contain all of those words in itself. Lonesome means a state of being apart. Of being other. Alone-some.

❝ zoya of the lost city. zoya of the garden. zoya bleeding in the snow. you are strong enough to survive the fall.❞ 

❝ we      slytherins  are brave, yes, but not      stupid.  for instance, given the      choice,  we will always choose to      save  our own  necks . ❞