tenderness;

@aglionbysource hunt: favourite quotes

05. 31. 18 — i dream of the heavens.

― Vincent Van Gogh

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.

I think Nesta feels everything—sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly.

@ravencyclenetwork​ search: underrated characters - D E C L A N  L Y N C H     𝕋he three brothers were nothing if not handsome copies of their father, although each flattered a different side of Niall. Declan had the same way of taking a room and shaking its hand.

oh yes, the past can hurt. but from the way i see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

“There are no gods left to watch, I’m afraid. And there are no gods left to help you now, Aelin Galathynius.’ Aelin smiled, and Goldryn burned brighter. ‘I am a god.”

literature alphabet ≡ d for dante quintana chosen by @andrewminard ↳ someday, I'm going to discover all the secrets of the universe.

the moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed. o, fathers of my bloodline! o, ye kings of olde! take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. if only you had known the mighty work of thine loins would be undone by a gay heir who likes it when american boys with chin dimples are mean to him. 

He reached down, grabbed the hem of his shirt, dragged it off. His wet hair showered droplets on them both. “I’ve been broken for weeks,” he said unsteadily, and she knew what that cost him, that admission of lack of control. “I need to be whole again. Even if it doesn’t last.”

I wrecked it during the War, and it’s hurt ever since.

A Court of Silver Flames | Coming January 2021

she did not smile. she only stared and stared  and   s t a r e d.

“Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.”

Czesław Miłosz, “What Does It Mean.”