A Kingdom, or this.

Love is the most precious of totems. It reveals itself in unexpected ways.

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, 1931-2013), A Road, 1988. Oil on canvas, 80 x 90 cm.

Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire): Mother of dragons, Daenerys thought. Mother of monsters. What have I unleashed upon the world? A queen I am, but my throne is made of burned bones, and it rests on quicksand. Without dragons, how could she hope to hold Meereen, much less win back Westeros? I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.

kill the boy, jon snow. winter is almost upon us. kill the boy and let the man be born. 

“Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil.”

“You think you’re the only person who’s ever lost anyone?” Will’s face twisted. “Don’t make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It’s not like that.”

A best friend forever, for your whole life.

we never stop fighting.

Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.

fear spreads. but fortunately, love does too.

“There’s nothing a shadowhunter can’t do in heels.”

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