Vicious by VE Schwab

But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?

Ace of Shades

“Now, as she held her breath and desperately searched the faces of strangers around her, she felt that she was more broken than not. One exhale, one sob, and all her pieces would shatter.“

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe for @dreamtheif (bc they have been emotionally compromised)

— I wanted to tell them that I’d never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren’t meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn’t have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. “Dante’s my friend.

Andreil + popular textposts

“I hate you.” Andrew said casually. He took a last long drag from his cigarette and flicked it off the roof. “You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs.”

“I’m not a hallucination.” Neil said, nonplussed.

“You are a pipe dream.”

[Kevin Day] - The Queen

Aaron Snorted. “Kevin would kill himself if he heard that.” “Kevin thinks we are a waste of oxygen.” Nicky said with a shrug.

Vicious by VE Schwab

Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus

“Bob says hello.”

All for the game moodboard

“He’s been king long enough - time to tear his castle down.”

@exysource​, game #3: favourite characters; Kevin Day

~ “We’re all going to die.” Kevin said at last.

All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

“I’m just trying to understand.” “Sometimes you’re interesting enough to keep around. Other times you’re so astoundingly stupid I can barely stand the sight of you.

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

“I passed by a school on the way into town. Aglionby Academy. Is that where you go?”

@andrewspipedream asked Kaz Brekker or Baz Pitch for my 3.5k celebration

“Alistair Crowley”

@yeahboiislay asked for my 3.5k celebration: Blue Sargent or Penelope Bunce

“But she didn’t want that. She wanted something more.”

@jostenminyards asked for my 3.5k celebration: Abby Winfield or Betsy Dobson

–“Andrew let me see him, he’s hurt.”