“We hope or we falter.”

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”

I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled.

“So,” I say, when I’m ready. The mug warms my palms, and the memories flood through me like a drug, razor sharp, crystal clear, kaleidoscopic. “Fall semester, 1997. I don’t know if you remember, but it was a warm autumn that year.”

natasha romanoff; hey, fellas, either one of you know where the smithsonian is? i’m here to pick up a fossil.

❝ percy let me go, she croaked. you can’t pull me up❞          ❝ never❞

She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above.

you can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. that is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.