"Whatever I do has to mean something. I need to make something beautiful, something that lasts. I don't know what, but I have to, if I want my life to matter at all."
"Beautiful things are supposed to hurt."
"You could do anything to me and I'd let you."
"Tell me you love me, at least. Please. I need to know somebody does."
"They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound."
"I kill them because they're beautiful, and it's the only way I can keep them."
"What a lonely, dreary thing it is to know the truth."
"I miss you to pieces. Yours always."
"He'd forgotten ever being angry. He felt gentle and endlessly patient; if Julian had asked, he would have happily cut his chest open and handed over his heart, his lungs, every part of himself piece by piece."
"I can't tell you how happy I am to see you" he said, and for a moment Paul couldn't imagine, much less remember, that anything in the world existed outside the two of them.
"Paul lay with his head on Julian's lap, trying to map constellations into the sun-darkened freckles on his knees, while Julian combed his fingertips gently through Paul's hair."
"They kissed each other breathless between each promise."
"They could only stitch themselves back together if they did something irreversible."
"Hard to trust you if you're going to maim me."
"The worst damage humans do isn't rooted in malice but in thoughtlessness."
"I know why you fuck me like you wish you could kill me."
"They were wild and delirious and invincible, and it was strange that no one else could see it."
"Familiar smells, familiar sounds, a life still marred by all its old fractures and disappointments."
"It was the first time he could believe Julian when he spoke this way, as if they were one mind, one heart, one pair of lungs."
"All I want to do is make you happy, and you're the unhappiest person I've ever met."
"I love you. By now you ought to be able to let me fucking tell you."
me on twitter every day: im thinking about loustat again im gonna go spend an hour watching the turning clip in bad quality 0.8x on youtube <3
also me: damn i cant watch ep 3 yet :((((((((
what if 200 children were killed so you could be born and you carried this guilt with you and you thought you were the most rotten most awful thing in the universe and then your parents killed themselves bc of you so that’s 202 deaths and you were the saddest most desperate loneliest girl in the entire universe and you thought you would never be loved and then a girl loves you so much she KILLS HERSELF for you. so that’s 203 deaths. she loves you so much she wants to be one with you she wants to mingle your souls and so she kills herself even though she knows you’ll hate her for it. and THEN you have to perform a lobotomy on yourself so you’ll forget her so you can’t consume her soul completely so there’s still a part of her that’s alive and untouched by you. because you would rather keep her in a shackle inside your mind than lose her completely to yourself. and also there’s ghosts in your brain. well this all happened to my buddy harrow
I think my favorite reaction to HtN from first-time readers is “omg Harrow is going insane!!!!!”
did you not read the first book. this bitch has been insane since the day she was born. her first appearance in the series was her confronting Gideon after staying up all night to dig up bones and hide them in the floor so she could kick Gideon’s ass for trying to sneak off the planet. when did you think she was being normal. when she stayed awake for days on end obsessively trying to figure out the first trial in Canaan House. how about the time she got so dehydrated and exhausted that she made herself a bone cocoon to sleep in. I could go on
truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life
you think this is hot wait til you go to hell for working at gofundme or tumblr and being paid to mark Palestinians trying to survive as spambots
i haven't engaged with the fandom very much so idk if this is the common read of this or not but i'm OBSESSED with the way john changes characters names when he resurrects them and strips them of so much of their identity. gideon becoming kiriona, an attempt to connect her with heritage that has been dead for ten thousand years. but more than that, the lyctors. mercymorn, pyrrha, cytherea... those are fucking HOUSE NAMES! those aren't their names!! only referring to them by their initials when recounting their story to harrow... that's all that remains of who they once were. m----, a-----, these names are lost to time. john's the only one who knows them, and he doesn't even tell us. he is such a compelling villain
Close enough welcome back cover of alecto the ninth
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