and she, abloom,

greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.

Yeah. You could say that.

Above, the stars faded behind the misty sky, and the sun fanned its light upon us. We melted into each other until the dawn slid into dusk, and the sun paled into the moon, and the stars, once lost, became found again.

— nocturna, maya motayne.

LOOK, I DIDN’T WANT TO BE A HALF-BLOOD. If you’re reading watching this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book show right now. Believe whatever lie your mom and dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.

No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck.

[ NIKOLAI LANTSOV ]  nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. but he’d never believed that. hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.

“ … 3 0   m i l l i o n   k r u g e . ”

You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend, you would sacrifice the world. In a hero of the prophecy, that is very, very dangerous.

Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.

“Connor!” Katie scolded. She sounded like her mother, Demeter. “This is serious. You are not going to loot a candy store in the middle of a war!”

(happy birthday, cari @zoyagenya ♡.) line art by cassandra jean.

“i am a delicate flower.” “you aren’t a flower— ”

“She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”

All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my body, of my own heart. All of those answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it.

Read to Me

and even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does.