Okay Apparently Tessa Didn't Lose Her Powers But I Was Super Pissed While Writing This So We're Going

Thinking about how Will Herondale scorned A Tale of Two Cities, but started loving it because of Tessa. HE ENVIED SYDNEY CARTON???? BECAUSE HE COULD TELL LUCIE OF HIS LOVE FOR HER??? EVEN IF THE ONLY THING HE COULD DO TO PROVE HIS LOVE WAS TO DIE???

and how Will would have died for a chance to tell Tessa that he loved her. HE THOUGHT SYDNEY WAS FREE, AND HE WISHED FOR THAT SORT OF FREEDOM.

okay but remember when Nikolai Lantsov said~"There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still."

And when Tessa Grey said~"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

And when Feyre Archeron said~"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

And when Will Herondale said~"We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone."

And when Celaena Sardothien said~"I can survive well enough on my own- if given proper reading material."

"You’re mad,” I said. “You know what he can do. No prize is worth that.”

Sturmhond grinned. “That remains to be seen.”

“The Darkling will hunt you for the rest of your days.”

“Then you and I will have something in common, won’t we? Besides, I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”

Mal crossed his arms and considered the privateer. “I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”

“I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond said. “It can be hard to choose.” 

~Leigh Bardugo, Siege & Storm

He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”

I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”

He grins up at me. “They missed.” 

~Holly Black, The Wicked King

no but remember when Marco Alisdair asked Celia Bowen if she remembers all her audiences and she said she only remembers the ones who look at her the way he does and then he asked her what way might that be AND THEN CELIA SAID THE ICONIC "LIKE THEY CAN'T DECIDE IF THEY ARE AFRAID OF ME OR IT THEY WANT TO KISS ME" AND MARCO HAD THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY TO ANSWER WITH "I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU"-

Why is everyone talking about soc3 my anxiety CANNOT- "what if leigh pulls a no mourners, too many funerals and kaz is the only one left" or "what if kaz sacrifices himself for the others" or "what if wesper get separated" or "what if nina turns bad" or- Y'ALL NEED TO STOP MANIFESTING THIS SHIT😭😭😭

Somewhere between thinking of Beth as "the middle sister who dies, what about her?" to "the nice one, the one who wants everyone to be happy", Evelyn Hugo fell in love with Celia St James.

Unfriendly Reminder that

Isaak deserved better :(

Okay so I know how Darklina stans say Taylor wrote 'my tears ricochet' for them, but 'hoax' gives me Darklina vibes too~

"My twisted knife,my sleepless night" and "Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in" and "You knew it still hurts underneath my scars" and "My win-less fight, this has frozen my ground" and "You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score?"

Firstprince as Taylor Swift songs-

•London Boy

do I even need to explain this one?

"But something happened, I heard him laughing. I saw the dimples first and then I heard the accent."

"You know I love a London boy, I fancy you."

"He likes my American smile, Like a child, when our eyes meet, darling I fancy you."

"So I guess all the rumours are true?"

"Show me a gray sky, a rainy cab ride, babe, don't threaten me with a good time."

•Delicate

"This ain't for the best, my reputation's never been worse. So you must like me for me."

"We can't make any promises, now can we babe?"

"Is it cool that I said all that? Is it chill that you're in my head? 'Cause I know that it's delicate."

"Stay here, honey I don't want to share."

"I wonder, when you sleep, are you ever dreaming of me? Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time."

•Gold rush

"Eyes like sinking ships, on waters so inviting, I almost jump in."

"What must it be like, to grow up that beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominos?"

"I don't like a gold rush. I don't like anticipating my face in a red flush. I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch."

"Everybody wants you, but I don't like a gold rush."

"My mind turns your life into folklore, I don't dare to dream about you."

•Enchanted

"The playful conversation starts, Counter all your quick remarks, like passing notes in secrecy."

"This night is flawless, don't you let it go. I'm wonder struck, dancing around all alone. I'll spend forever wondering if you knew, I was enchanted to meet you."

"My thoughts will echo your name, until I see you again. These are the words I held back, as I was leaving too soon."

"Please don't be in love with someone else, please don't have somebody waiting on you."

•I know places

"Something happens when everybody find out. See the vultures circling dark clouds. Love's a fragile little flame, it could burn out."

"Let them say what they want, we won't hear it. Loose lips sink ships all the damn time."

"And you know for me, it's always you."

"Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it, my love."

"I know places we won't be found."

•Dancing with our hands tied

"I loved you in secret."

"I could've spent forever with your hands in my pockets, picture of your face in an invisible locket."

"I loved you in spite of, deep fears that the world would divide us."

"I'd kiss you as the lights went out, Swaying as the room burned down. I'd hold you as the water rushes in, if I could dance with you again."

•Cruel summer

"Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes. What doesn't kill me makes me want you more."

"It's cool, that's what I tell 'em. No rules, in breakable heaven. But it's a cruel summer, with you."

"I don't want to keep secrets just to keep you."

"And I screamed for whatever it's worth, 'I love you' ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"

•The Lakes

"I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones, These hunters with cell phones."

"Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don't belong, and my beloved neither do you."

"I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze, tell me what are my words worth?"

"A red rose grew out of the ice frozen ground, with no one around to tweet it."

"While I bathe in cliffside pools, with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief."