a smile made for war

Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them–made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same.

“So the Herrani thought his face held the mad delight of a warrior at the sight of battle. He let them believe it. You are the god of lies, Kestrel had said. He looked at his people and smiled, and the smile was a lie—but like writing in a mirror, whose reflection is the inverse of a truth.”      / /    the winners curse 

                                                                                                 You’re already dead! (insp.)

//carapaced//

we never stop fighting.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via ohteenscanrelate)

everyone deserves a second chance… don’t they?

Don’t look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.

“What do I do?” Blue asked cannily. “What have you guys seen me doing?”

literature posters; the wrath and the dawn by renee ahdieh

the grisha trilogy; favourite characters ↳ “what is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

↳ kestrel trajan (the winner’s trilogy)

“Not with a bang, but with a whimper. In with gunfire and out with smoke. And August wasn’t ready to die. Even if surviving wasn’t simple, or easy, or fair. Even if he could never be human. He wanted the chance to matter. He wanted to live.”

(and your world is dark without him.) [ x ]