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THE EMILY HENRY LITERARY UNIVERSE as netflix films

— he's more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

    “Let them know.” He shrugs. “This world is dark and the night is unyielding; the least we can do is fill it with sweet, forbidden dreams.”                                                 ―      Elise Kova, A Duel with the Vampire Lord    

“The clan is my blood and the Pillar is its master,” she whispered. “I have a lot of regrets in life, but those oaths aren’t one of them.”

And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab

How does a teenager die of “natural causes”?

and i’ll call gideon when it’s over and talk to him long after everyone has fallen asleep, the phone growing warm against my ear. as we say good night, i will want to say i love you. i won’t say it. but just the thought of it will keep me awake long after. the best kind of awake, the purest caffeine pumping through your veins, where you never want to stop feeling what you’re feeling, can’t bear the thought of interrupting it, even with sleep. (in/sp)

and i will not be denied.

Twisted Hate by Ana Huang 🩺🎿🖼️

Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness HER RAVEN BOYS.

“sometimes it feels like i didn’t even exist before that. like you invented me.”

“This book, this job, this trip, this never-ending, days-spanning conversation. I want to make it all last, and I need to know how it ends. I want to finish it, and I need it to go on forever.“

It will come, citizens, the day when all shall be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is so that it may come that we are going to die.

“I was too young to know the truth then. That victory meant another’s defeat, and sometimes our own defeat. That winning meant sacrifices, and sometimes ones that even our own people were not willing to make. That in war, someone always paid.”

alex + being compared to stars

Was your fate already written? Was it predestined? Or, could you alter its course? And, did you have the free will to do so?