Friendly Reminder That-

“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”

“But what if he is your friend?” Achilles had asked him. “Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?” “You ask a question that philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard. He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it?

I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

~The Song of Achilles

So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends

Who'll write books about me, if I ever make it

And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm fakin'

And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own.

~'Tis the damn season

I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

~Patroclus, The Song Of Achilles

Early 2000s pjo fans who used to read wattapad fanfics and cry over a kiss scene and smuggle the books to school and are about to graduate highschool and are freaking out over the show casting coz THIS FANDOM IS SO PERSONAL AND NOSTALGIC TO US where you at?

Remember when Bailey's sister told him to grow up and he replied with

“That is precisely what I’m doing,” Bailey says. “I don’t care if you don’t understand that. Staying here won’t make me happy. It will make you happy because you are insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It’s not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I’m leaving.”

Hey gurl you dropped something MY JAW

A sapphic vampire show with angst and slowburn, created by V.E Schwab coming out during the fruity month??????💳💥💳💥💳💥

Clary Fairchild's favourite Taylor Swift song is Call it what you want because she too, trusts her lover like a brother :)

Okay remember when Alex said-

“I saw this young, queer guy who looked like me, sleeping at his desk because he wants kids at public schools in his state to have free lunches, and I was like, I could do this. I honestly don’t know if I’m good enough or smart enough to ever be either of my parents. But I could be that.”

“And now I’m sitting here thinking, that son of a bitch sold out, so maybe it’s all bullshit, and maybe I really am just a naive kid who believes in magical shit that doesn’t happen in real life.”

AND HOW THIS JUST PROVES HOW GOOD HE ACTUALLY IS-

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."

sooooooo,

show Malina> book Malina right???????