pithia

[pithia]

She struggled to her feet, sluggish, as though her limbs had been dipped in cobwebs and molasses, and when she finally stood, the world spun around her in waves of moonlight.

—from "Tangleroot Palace" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

Such dangerous things, her dreams. Like her voice, which makes thunder, raining words that drown.

—from "Tangleroot Palace" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

[B]eing in love with something that isn't real won't stop your heart from breaking.

—Richard, "The Last Dignity of Man" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

When you stop being optimistic, the veil that hides the cruelty of things is removed.

—Richard, "The Last Dignity of Man" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

"should we tell authors on ao3 when we have discord conversations about their fics" i don't speak for everyone here but if y'all ever find a group chat discussing my fics you can should must and WILL send me screenshots of the whole damn thing. inflate my ego. gimme

[pithia]

[He] senses a fissure between them: closing or opening, he cannot tell. Only, that he wasn't to cross the distance and does not dare.

—from "The Last Dignity of Man" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

Truth rested only in action; the rest was mystery.

—from "The Light and the Fury" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

Storytellers gave names to everything because they knew, better than anyone, that names were power. To name a witch was to control a witch, and, in the old stories at least, to destroy her.

—from "The Briar and the Rose" (The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu)

[pithia]

When I write, I live for the moment, passing through a story, inhabiting the skin—and when that story is done, so am I.

—Marjorie Liu ("Introduction", The Tangleroot Palace)

[pithia]

She kisses me like a patch of blue sky breaking through a gray morning.

—from When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

[pithia]

I've been biting back the words for so long now that I don't know how to push them past my lips.

—from When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

[pithia]

That's the mark of a real forest: you can get lost before you realize that you should be trying to stay found.

—from When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

[pithia]

[S]he's whispering something in a low, steady stream that I can't hear but that I can feel lapping at me in steady waves. The warmth spreads into my throat and chest, and I feel like I've been dipped in honey.

—from When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

[pithia]

[I]n that frozen moment, I can feel the tug of the wrong decision, pulling at me like a tide.

—from When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

[pithia]

People care about you, you know? You can hurt them just by forgetting that.

—Dad (When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey)

[pithia]

Sudden anger flares in my chest—a pure, hot weightlessness that makes me feel like I'm ten feet tall.

—from When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

[pithia]

That's the key to doing stuff you're scared of. You gotta run at it.

—Roya (When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey)