NINTHHOUSENET

books read in 2021 - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

— ninth house (2019)

NINTH HOUSE by LEIGH BARDUGO

/ Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

alex felt all of the interest go out of her. was she really supposed to have something to say, some wisdom to impart? stay in school? don't do drugs? don't fuck the wrong guys? don’t let the wrong guys fuck with you? dream smaller? don’t let the girl you love die?

books read in 2021 - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

“that was what magic did. it revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible. it gave back the world all lonely children longed for.”

look around. what do you see? people in costumes, horns, false jewels, adorning themselves in tiny layers of illusion. they stand up straighter, suck in their stomachs, say things they don’t mean, indulge in flattery. they commit a thousand small acts of deception, lying to each other, lying to themselves, drinking to the point of delusion to make it easier. this is a night of compacts, between the seers and the seen, a night when people enter false bargains willingly, hoping to be duped and to dupe in turn for the pleasure of feeling brave or sexy or beautiful or simply wanted—no matter how fleetingly.

alex stern my beloved <3

Alex Stern

“That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for.”

@booksociety’s​ Momento Mori Event: Ninth House

saw a photo of this sculpture and instantly thought of the manuscript party in ninth house by @lbardugo so… did this little 2hr drawing. feeling absolutely bananagrams. 

Ratller

— ninth house (2019)

mors irrumat omnia. death fucks us all