head empty thinking about deathless quotes and how alcina’s whole vibe fits fairytale aesthetics so well. better even than the scifi of resident evil generally. examples under the cut but ... if you wanna do fairytale or magic au stuff send me a dm eye.png i have about a million quotes from deathless by catherynne m valente beneath the cut bc they Inspire me and i wanna do more witchy stuff.
“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.” im crying bout this line... constantly.......... its so good. the addictiveness of magic send help rip. the way it seems fun and exciting and quick and easy. until u are waking up as a nine foot human experiment.  “Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.” ok but the above.... mirancina vibes . or just anyone powerful To alcina. i dont think she has the Inner Peace or Angst to ever say this but i love it anyway. “That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.” thinkin. . . about the cult and the roles they played out for decades on decades on decades on decades “I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.” this one WOULD be something alcina could say.
“Lebedeva’s eyes shone. “Masha, listen to me. Cosmetics are an extension of the will. Why do you think all men paint themselves when they go to fight? When I paint my eyes to match my soup, it is not because I have nothing better to do than worry over trifles. It says, I belong here, and you will not deny me. When I streak my lips red as foxgloves, I say, Come here, male. I am your mate, and you will not deny me. When I pinch my cheeks and dust them with mother-of-pearl, I say, Death, keep off, I am your enemy, and you will not deny me. I say these things, and the world listens, Masha. Because my magic is as strong as an arm. I am never denied.” and this would be alcina to her daughters. ugh i love madame lebedeva. “But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.” : / “A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.” “How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.” “I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.” “You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.” “Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.” @ donna “Men die. It's practically what they're for.”
