hare of the moon;

I am writing now to stop this sentence from becoming our reality tonight, while she is still breathing.I hold Elaf close, counting her breaths, bargaining with time. Donations are low; seconds matter. Please stop, share, and donate now—your kindness can rewrite tomorrow and keep my daughter alive today, please, now.

Emma R. Alban

"Ego is the soul killer. Humanity should know its smallness."

But there is a compulsion. She thinks again of fairy tales. The woman who had to eat the witch’s watercress. The one who touched the pricking spindle. Who talked to the wolf. The ones who had to know.

"the hunger was a prayer, they said, a stripping away of the flesh that caged the soul."

What can be worse than what we are driven to, when all else is lost? Doesn’t it all become the same, then?

"Hunger is inescapable, shield barer.... You cannot gain any distance from it. It will follow you to the ends of the earth. But the hunger that I am holds the castle up. The hunger they are would tear it away from you. The hunger that you feel would lead you to victory."

"how do you untangle madness from reality?" Treila asks Phosyne. and isn't that right at the heart of things?

princess elia & lady lyanna (my shaylas)

how about life’s too short to be second-guessing yourself the whole way? you can only go with what you feel right now and if you feel like it might make you happy, even for a while, jump in with both feet, girl, and get wet.

books read in 2021 - [10/?] The Falling In Love Montage by Ciara Smyth ↳ I wanted to tell her how much I liked her, how I felt this tugging feeling in my stomach that drew me close to her, but I couldn’t let the words out of my mouth because it felt like unleashing something I couldn’t control.

"sometimes love isn’t enough. i think it is. i think it has to be. otherwise, it’s not really love. if the world can break it..."

she would always be the goblin forcing maidens to spin straw into gold. she would always be the Yeva in thorns. the moment she let down her guard, everything she had fought for would be taken from her. this place had made Lorelei into a viper, and if she should go down, she would go down hissing.