per aspera ad astra

“don’t leave,” he whispered, and his hand flailed, reaching for her. “you and I … we need to stay together. we’re better this way.”

Percy Jackson and the Olympians | Episode 2 "I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom"

At Beyoncé's Renaissance Film Premiere in London

— Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn (Harper Voyager, 2022)

“there was something sick in me, something wrong. even baby birds knew how to shriek, even kittens knew how to mewl, even puppies knew how to whine. papa had told me i hadn’t even cried when he’d pulled me from between my mother’s thighs… my eldest sister was right; i would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. but no one had ever told me that i was allowed to scream.”

He's already rooting for Wylan.

All of it.

I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.

@folkoftheair asked: tid or tfota?

the bomb: NO

“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcel me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.” 

There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.

The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.

… what’s the easiest way to steal a man’s wallet?