harbour lights

kell—inspired by the lost city known to all as black london—had given each remaining capital a color. grey for the magic-less city. red, for the healthy empire. white, for the starving world.

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books to movies: i’ll give you the sun (2014)

Other Londons. Men walking through magical doors. Stones that made something out of nothing. It was all the stuff of stories. Of adventures.

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book aesthetics: shades of magic by victoria schwab Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will. But Kell knew it came from blood. Blood was magic made manifest. There it thrived. And there it poisoned. 

Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

“Blood was magic made manifest. There it thrived. And there it poisoned. Kell had seen what happened when power warred with the body, watched it darken in the veins of corrupted men, turning their blood from crimson to black. If red was the color of magic in balance—of harmony between power and humanity—then black was the color of magic without balance, without order, without restraint.”

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Will: capricorn, aquarius, leo, pisces

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

“Just…please don’t kiss me if you don’t mean it.”

Adam and Gansey looked at each other. They had always had the sense that the Noah they knew was not the true Noah. It was just disconcerting to hear how much Noahness death had stripped. It was impossible to not wonder what Noah would have done with himself if he had lived.