The Folk Of The Air Series Really Didn't Have To Go As Hard As It Did With The Poetic Lines

The Folk of the Air series really didn't have to go as hard as it did with the poetic lines

“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed, if only there was someone to congratulate me.”

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.”

“If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse.”

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” “No, tell me.” “I cannot.”

“Kill him before he makes you love him.”

“Kiss me again, kiss me until I'm sick it.”

“He is even more horrifically beautiful than I was able to recall. They’re all beautiful, unless they’re hideous.”

“My sweet villain, my darling god.”

“I want to tell you so many lies.”

“Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.”

“By you, I am forever undone.”

“My sweet nemesis.”

“It’s you I love, I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”

If i had one wish, i would use it to send my parents to therapy before I was born

jude duarte's heroism and bravery lies in her standing up for herself it's not some lame and boring captain-america-standing-up-for-the-little-guy bullshit that main characters generally have and i LOVE that about her folk of the air would have changed the trajectory of my life if middle school me had read the books her selfishness and survival is so admirable most of the times people overlook her characterisation because we're all focusing on jude x cardan and it's ridiculous because she's such a layered character everything she does is for her own survival in this essay i will-

Holly Black could have so easily fallen into the YA trap of pairing every teenage girl with a wise and mystical fae 8 times her age but no, Holly said here’s your mystical fae he’s like 19 years old and he’s dumb as shit

I think about this alot