no wonder

From the Pantheon last year

Why is Lord Asriel like this?

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To Deenie, it was one of many intersting things that adults said would kill you: Easter lillies, jellyfish, copperhead snakes with their diamond heads, tails bright as sulfur. Don’t touch, don’t taste, don’t get close. And then, last week. it had been Lise’s idea to go to the lake, to go in the water. She’d stood in it, waving at them, her tights stripped off, her legs withe as the moon.

Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994

you come from   n o t h i n g   and you   grew

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Marie Lu, The Young Elites (via bookswithlisa)

Or do I just want to reread a book I’ve read 10 fucking times I just don’t know

“Isabella has been poorly served by writers, and was as far removed from her reputation in popular culture as any person possibly could be. She was a million miles both from being evil, manipulative, vengeful, murderous she-wolf and a desperate housewife stuck in a supposedly hateful marriage on the search for true love who allowed herself to become the passive victim of unscrupulous men. The myths and inventions about her have become far better known than the reality, which is a pity, because her life is fascinating and vivid enough without the tawdry melodramatic tales invented and embroidered in later times.” [x]

And she would call the gods to do such terrible things.