it’s nice to see kartik in such a festive mood this holiday season
ok ok u guise don’t get it because you didn’t read the gemma doyle trilogy but but believe me it’s hilarious
especially at 2:40 am
The Order Reborn
“We’re alive with our new secret, with the way we belong to each other and to something other than the dull passing of hours with nothing to look forward to besides our routines. It makes me feel even more powerful than the whiskey, and I want it to go on forever.”
But people can be cursed, can’t they? They could have something, an affliction, that’s beyond their control. Couldn’t they? - Pippa Cross
Grimm and Other Folk Tales.
One of my personal projects from 2009.
I don’t think I know the first story because all I see is Kartik.
Where has the time gone…
“858. “I’ve always been so irritated when Pippa opens her mouth, I haven’t stopped to think she may babble on because she’s afraid she won’t be heard. I vow to give her that chance from now on.”
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Bray 284 (via bookquoter)
“But forgiveness…I’ll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there’s an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
(Source: vashti)
Gemma Doyle Trilogy Music List
Dark Waltz by Hayley Westenra
We are the lucky ones
We shine like a thousand suns
When all of the colour runs together
I’ll keep you company
In one glorious harmony
Waltzing with destiny forever
Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light
Time dances whirling past
I gaze through the looking glass
And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven
“How I’d love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (via fuckyeahgemmadoyletrilogy)
“What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?
Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire?
Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you’ve glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?”
Mary Dowd’s Journal Entry (A Great and Terrible Beauty) by Libba Bray (via fuckyeahgemmadoyletrilogy)
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