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Happy birthday, Katie! 

The water pressed at his chest, demanding that he part his lips. I won’t, he swore. But in the end, Kaz opened his mouth, and the water r u s h e d in.

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 

literature aesthetics: ↳ cal and maven calore (red queen, victoria aveyard)

Are you really so surprised? Poor Mavey, the second prince. The shadow of his brother’s flame. A weak thing, a little thing, doomed to stand to the side and kneel.

“I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t fight like this, or start a revolution, or be a queen. I can’t do anything like this. I’m broken. I’m literally broken.” Iko settled a hand on Cinder’s shoulder. “Yeah, but broken isn’t the same as unfixable.”

“You’ll fight with me?” I ask him, hardly breathing. “Fight back with me? Even if it’s with Warner?” Kenji smiles. Looks up at the sky. “Hell yeah,” he says. “Really?” “I’m here for you, kid. That’s what friends are for.”

“Close your eyes!” “You can’t kiss me from down there, Wylan.”

“But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You’ll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You’ll be fine, because you’re strong, like me.”

(part one)

“i am a man of my word.” he tips his head again. “when i want to be.”

It’s sight, and taste, and scent, and sound, and touch, and it’s also something else entirely. It is the power in all powers, and at the same time, it is it’s own. And once you know how to sense it’s presence, you will never be without it.

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.“ Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”  

“We won’t die, then.”  — vicious by v.e. schwab

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