#grlsha

Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, “You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.' Gansey died. “Goodbye,” Noah said. “Don't throw it away.” He quietly slid from time.

“You could rattle the stars,“ she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”

He traced the outline of a key into his bloody, burnt palm with a shaky finger, closed his eyes, and wished Neil Josten goodbye.

like calls to like.

achilles hears the faint hum of its passage a second before it strikes. he turns his head a little, as if to watch it come. he closes his eyes and feels its point push through his skin, parting thick muscle, worming its way past the interlacing fingers of his ribs. there, at last, is his heart. blood spills between shoulder blades, dark and slick as oil. achilles smiles as his face strikes the earth.

- @lbardugo

I didn’t want to lie, but sometimes it’s so much easier than the truth. Shorter. I just wanted to start over. Have you ever done that? It’s freeing, at first, like shedding a heavy coat. And then you get cold, and you realize life’s not a coat at all. It’s skin. It’s something you can’t take off without losing yourself, too.

                                                                                                   names + meaning                                                                                                                         ~ meg