i was more

You didn’t slaughter every one of the Starks. No, no, that was your mistake. You should have ripped them all out, root and stem. Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe. When people ask you what happened here… tell them the North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey.  ♛  d r a g o n s t o n e . 

a smoke break

FAVORITE SEASON

I’d never given much though to how I would die. But dying in place of someone I love, seems like a good way to go. I can’t bring myself to regret the decisions that brought me face to face with death. They also brought me to Edward.

❝ You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough. ❞

chess isn’t always competitive. chess can also be beautiful. it was the board i noticed first. it’s an entire world of just 64 squares. i feel safe in it. i can control it. i can dominate it. and it’s predictable, so if i get hurt, i only have myself to blame.

Not if I can help it.

We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.

He lifted his glass. “To never dying.” Eli lifted his. “To being remembered.” Their glasses clinked as Eli added, “Forever.”

Coffee or tea? Night or day? Chocolate or vanilla? Biking or hiking? Waffles or pancakes? Libraries or museums? 

Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box amongst misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?

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“thank you,” he finally said. he couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty, and the kisses. hopefully andrew would figure it out eventually. “you were amazing.”