#*books2018

books read in 2018: leah on the offbeat, by becky albertalli imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. that has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.

    books (re)read in 2018:  The King's Men Neil had been doing one stupid thing after another all year long and this had turned into the best year of his life.

each day means a new twenty-four hours. each day means everything's possible again. you live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.

There’s nothing worse for a soldier to imagine—that there will be no home to return to once the violence is over, no way to become the men we want to be. Instead, we’re trapped in these violent guises, guises we only ever had the courage to don because of how much we love our home.

“He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: ‘To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!’”

books read in 2018: the secret history, by donna tartt. it's a very greek idea, and a very profound one. beauty is terror. whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. and what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? to throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?

books read in 2018: the raven cycle, by maggie stiefvater. what do you know about welsh kings?

books read in 2018: this savage song, by victoria schwab monsters, monsters, big and small, they're gonna come and eat you all!