in his own country, Death can be kind

na razrusha'ya. i am not ruined.      e'ya razrushost. i am ruination.

“I’m the sun summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, Seventh Year

“quiet, quiet. quiet. look at me,” he said, but it took him a while longer before he could sit up and face aaron again. he pressed a hand to aaron’s bloodied shirt. “it’s everywhere. what did he do?” “it’s not mine,” aaron said. “it’s not mine, it's—andrew, he—” andrew touched aaron’s temple where he himself was injured as if he expected to find an identical injury there. “did he touch you?” “what did he—” andrew knotted his fingers in aaron’s hair and yanked to shut him up. “answer me. i said, did he touch you?”

I have anxiety

That’s why we’ve always been drawn to each other like magnets, all our lives. All the pieces of us belong together.” He held her tighter. “Your name, Emma, means universe, you know,” he said. “Doesn’t that prove I’m right?”

 — Deathless, Cathyrenne M. Valente

#schwabweek: day one ≡ favorite book/series

the secret history by donna tartt