facilis descensus averno

if you confess , you might get blessed. 

“but even if the desert forgot a thousand and one of our stories, it was enough that they would tell of us at all. that long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived.”

                I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all. 

Velaris, or the City of Starlight, is a hidden city on the western side of the Night Court. It is home to The Court of Dreams, one of the two sub-courts of The Night Court.

They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy’s arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds.

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every one of the children of the institute was peculiar, he thought: jessamine with her bitterness and her dollhouse, will with his lies and secrets, and jem —  his dying was only another sort of peculiarity.

“Fate,“ Blue replied, glowering at her mother, “is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.” 

Listen here

— may the force be with you.

why waste my anger on you when the fault is mine? i should have anticipated another betrayal from you, one more mad grasp at some kind of childish ideal. but i seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned.

The bastard-born warriors, the Illyrian half-breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmare and the huntress with an artist’s soul.

“I am haunted by humans.”

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