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jamie campbell bower as victor vale

12.08.22

“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” —T.S. Eliot

And so, as a year has passed, I’ve come full circle. Not a real circle. More like a freaky circle. I’m with family. I’m reading a good book. In a month I’ll start my third year of university. Nothing and everything changes. Cheers to everyone wherever you are. The Perseids this year are too dim to see because of the full moon, but they’re still there. We’re still here. We are not alone.

“When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.’

- But there’s no place like that in this world.

- Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.” —Haruki Murakami



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.

Lila Bard and Kell (Shades of Magic Series by V.E. Schwab)

Whether her hands were filled with knives or fire, her voice low and coaxing or lined with steel, she seemed to hold the world in her hands.

Maybe she did.

After all, she’d already taken two Londons as her own.

✦ endless list of Nickie’s favourite reads: V i c i o u s  by V. E. Schwab

favorite lit quotes ➤ vicious, v.e. schwab

This has the same energy as:

nOt mY pReSiDeNt

((This Savage Song by V.E. Schwab))

You, a memory that was not mine to keep.

~But that does not stop me from trying to remember

(Inspired by The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)

If no one heard it, did it happen?

If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?

(The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab)

Proof of my existence:

I am my unmade bed

My week old unfolded laundry that was Fresh once

I am the disappointment in my mothers eyes

And the scars I have left on lovers and strangers

I am my clothes I have donated

And my compilation of pintrest boards the innocent scroller will accidentally stumble across

I am the the jokes I penciled into the walls of my middle school bathroom stall

I am the dust I leave behind

Dead skin cells, reminder that they were living once

I was living once

I had once had the pleasure of laying my palm against the surface of something tangible and it felt the contact as much as I did

I am the peices of myself I have left scattered in the people I have let hold me

Long enough for parts of me to become caught under their fingernails and in their eyelashes

I am not my mistakes

But I am their consequences

I am shrapnel scars left by the promises I shattered

I am the pastries I have bought

My coin accumulating into something greater than it once was

And in that small way I make someone's dream a reality

And in that small way I am immortalized

I am the corners of novel pages I have folded

And the sentences I have left highlighted and the notes I have scrawled in its margins

I am the half finished stories I wrote in the 6th grade

I am my poetry

And the things I have discarded

I am my clouded breath dancing on the cold wind momentarily before dissipating

As it becomes one with the ether forever adrift

And in that small way I am immortalized

I am my embarrassing childhood photographs

I am the energy you spent on me and the time you wasted on us

I am the things I have created but perhaps more the absence left in the wake of the things I have destroyed

I am the stains I have left and the sins I have committed

Out of spite, out of desperation, frivolously or unwittingly.

I am the way my name burns yours tounge when your mouth tries to wrap itself around its pronunciation and the scalding memories

I am

I was

here.

READ IN 2017 → Shades of Magic by V. E. Schwab

“I’m not going to die,” she said. “Not till I’ve seen it.” “Seen what?” Her smile widened. “Everything.”

Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal, Sing you a song and steal your soul

shades of magic: cover redesign

Books are by @veschwab. ❤️📖

it was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous

Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Everytime I think of this scene in my head I imagine it sounding like the most gut wrenching desperate pleading scream and it kills me a little more every time

No matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.

I've always wanted to draw this scene, and I've been trying to practice backgrounds so the forest setting was perfect. I also really like the way the 2nd panel turned out!

THIS

I’m sorry but the people who read Addie Larue and walked away saying she had no depth or no motivation or wtf ever lack basic reading comprehension skills. The book literally mentions multiple times that she is operating on pure spite. There are multiple times she wants to give in but doesn’t because there is more beauty to be seen and more ways to make Luc mad about the fact that she won’t give in. “She never does anything important.” Girl is literally fighting the ocean alone. No one can remember her, but she still wakes up and gives her heart to people who see her as a stranger. Over 300 years and she doesn’t stop trying to experience love and happiness. God, you must be so miserable and end result motivated to not see how good this character is.

Do you ever start reading a book but you don't want to continue reading it, not because it's bad, but because it's so good you know you'll never get over it after it ends??

Favourite book female characters :

June from vicious by V.E scwab

Jude duarte from the Cruel prince by Holly Black

Celeana sardothien from throne of glass by Sarah j mass

Nesta archeron from A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J mass

Jax Taylor from warcross by Marie lu

Scarlett Dragna from caraval by Stephanie garber

Ulla morozova from a language of thorns by leigh bardugo

Emma Carstairs from lady midnight by cassandra clare

Juliette ferrars from shatter me by Tahereh mafi

Jules from genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

Helen aquilla from an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir

Favourite female characters p.2!

Kate Harker from this savage song by V.E scwab

Nina zenik from six of crows by leigh bardugo

Kestrel trajan from the winners curse by Marie rutsoski

Bryce quinlan from house of earth and blood by Sarah j mass

Drusilla blackthorn from lady midnight by Cassandra Clare

Nadia zhabin from shadow and bone by leigh bardugo