“Omnia dicta fortiori si dicta Latina.”

HELL BENT BY LEIGH BARDUGO

darlington was a good talker, but he was happiest when no one was speaking to him, when he didn't have to perform the ritual of himself and he could simply be left to watch others.

happy bestieversary, @selwynkane! ♡

for @selwynkane & @wespers 🤍

"There was a gun in his hand and a woman was screaming. She was pleading. But she wasn't a woman; she was something terrible. He could see night gathered around her. The boys had sent her to bring him back so they could cut him open again." - LEIGH BARDUGO, NINTH HOUSE

NINTH HOUSE by LEIGH BARDUGO

look around. what do you see? people in costumes, horns, false jewels, adorning themselves in tiny layers of illusion. they stand up straighter, suck in their stomachs, say things they don’t mean, indulge in flattery. they commit a thousand small acts of deception, lying to each other, lying to themselves, drinking to the point of delusion to make it easier. this is a night of compacts, between the seers and the seen, a night when people enter false bargains willingly, hoping to be duped and to dupe in turn for the pleasure of feeling brave or sexy or beautiful or simply wanted—no matter how fleetingly.