A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.”

How is Daughter of Smoke and Bone not more popular???? like genuinely HOW. Blue-haired art student living in Prague who runs errands for a wish-granting demon father who trades in TEETH. ancient wars. star-crossed lovers. secret magic. flying monsters. entire scenes that feel like dreams.