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there are only a couple things in my life that i consider as sacred as something old something new, it means the world to me <3

feels like yesterday that i started this for the first time, i genuinely can’t believe it’s been six years. not to be dramatic but i owe this series my life xxx

Cinder telling Kai who she really is has me screaming EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

sometimes it’s all about the bond you have with a book you read at 15 that completely changed your life!!! welcome home <333

tears streaming down my face on stansted express bcs of how infinitely beautiful this book is ahhh

“Henry, I havent told you how it ends”
SCREECHING NOISES.

welcome home <3

saw this in a secondhand bookstore in sydney and instantly knew i needed it

going back to london in a week, i figured this is the best time to reread 🤍

time to get back on the grind

“and that era was coming to an end. i felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks or a champion college footballer confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”

yeah… yeah. she knows. she really knows.

a certain someone has heavily bullied me into giving this a second try so here we are i guesss

i this day and age, i think this is one of the most important books to reread !!!

YES YES YES IM FINALLY READING IT I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAPPY

reread bcs i love ann liang

this is SO good im literally having the best time ahhh !!!!!

genuinely one of the most beautiful prose i have ever read. i’m ten pages in and tabbed like half of them. i already know this one is gonna be SO good

absolutely embarrassing that i haven’t read this yet ahhh

”after all, loneliness is like us. it has to be invited in.”
*screaming in ve schwab being the greatest prosaic of all time*

”but what good is a soul really?”
“it lives in the mind. a piece you cannot see or touch. a prize you are told to shield for a time you cannot know. easy enough to part with something so abstract when the alternative is freedom. when the promise is love.”
!!!!!!!!!!!

”why does charlotte stay?”
“that is like asking — why stay inside a house on fire? easy to say when you are standing on the street, a safe distance from the flames. harder when you are still inside, convinced you can douse the blaze before it spreads, or rushing room to room, trying to save what your love before it burns.”
so that called me out in like 63290 ways, hit like a TRUCK.

”won’t you miss it?”
“i miss the last cherries of the season. i miss chocolate melting on my tongue. i miss the way sun used to feel against my skin in the spring. i don’t miss walls and doors. others stay put, and wither in their boxes. we draw up our roots, and find new ground in which to grow.”
“how many lives have you lived?”
“enough, and not enough.”
you can live a thousand lives and yet it is never enough.

”but the woman charlotte met at last night’s ball struck her as neither sad nor lonely. only free.”
if this is not the way people describe me in a couple years than i’ve lived my life wrong.

”here is something you should know. we think ourselves immortal, but we’re not. all things get hollowed out by time, including us. for some it will take centuries, for others only a mortal life, but one way or another, eventually piece of us die. the parts that made us human. till all that’s left is hunger, and rot.” EXPLORATION OF MORAL DECLINE YES.

”someone to share this life. someone to make her feel anything more than hunger. or at least, a different kind.”
so if my very soul was to ever be represented by a book, it would be this & addie thank you very much.

”hunger lives inside us all. to some it is an empty bucket. to others, a yawning pit. and yet, no matter how shallow or deep it feels, here is a truth that will either drive you mad, or bring you peace. there is no filling it. you will never be sated. it does not matter whether you drink a carafe or drain a city. the hunger will not ease.”
jaw-dropped.

”one can be alone without feeling lonely, one can feel lonely without being alone.” PREACH

okayyy i am hooked 👀

new TJR book??? about the challenger shuttle??? main character is an astronomer??? this book was LITERALLY written for me

hm idk how im feeling about this one so far