Books

dedicated to @anthnybridgerton & @selwynkane  ♡

[Book Lovers by Emily Henry]

Normally, if given the choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I will do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night, if it meant nothing got done.

I know you’re scared, Sabrina. because all women are taught to fear power. own it.

Isn’t that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?

— Florence Welch, referring to what inspired her to write the song “Hunger,”

zodiac:  taurus

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“One moment. One picture. One glimpse—that’s all it takes to make someone think they know the truth.”

No one calls you honey when you’re sitting on the throne.

When I started to take care of myself more, then came balance, and freedom, and joy. It poured out into the music. 

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.

favorite characters: percy jackson ♡ Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.

―Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Maybe that was the thing about love I’ve never understood before Aiden. Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the world has ever wanted, love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn’t grow on its own. It didn’t blossom without food to feed it.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“You have to try. You have to take your chances. Go and attempt and see what happens. And even if you fail - especially if you fail - come back with your experience and your hard-won knowledge and a story you can tell. And then later you can say, without regret or hesitation… ‘Once, I dared to dare greatly”