moon magic;

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”

“I wished it was raining,“ he said. “I don’t need the rain,” I said. “I need you.”

lilyjcollins Seeing stripes…

She’s a very practical girl.

No one was my master—but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.

Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well. Her worst trait. Her best trait. The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb. A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth.

Where did this sudden urge to draw Annabeth come from???? I’ve drawn her so many times.

“Her fierce creature of a mind: sleek and sharp-clawed and utterly unwilling to be caught.” 

let the world honor you, my huntress, live forever in the stars

Rey is so strong. She’s cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to.

Here—here was the most powerful High Lord ever born.

Lily Collins for Grazia UK.

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Oscar Isaac for Neue Journal photographed by Brigitte Lacombe