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for @sonyasemyanovna, happy bday kafka ♡

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

Learning to draw the raven cycle gang

In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.

for @wespers just because 🤍 🪐 

But what fascinated Victor most was the fact that something about Eli was decidedly wrong. He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by.

What do you know about Welsh Kings?

Three tarot cards splayed before him. He’d taken one of the floor mats out of the car to crouch on to keep from dirtying his uniform trousers. If you combined these two things – the unfathomable and the practical – you were most of the way to understanding A d a m  P a r r i s h.

What do you know about Welsh Kings?

“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.”

"No mourners, no funerals." — Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

“these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to victor it was all just a matter of semantics. someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”

 Eli lifted his. “To being remembered.” Their glasses clinked as Eli added, “Forever.” 

If Eli really was a hero, and Victor was meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.

“and perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”