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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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“While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.”

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I sought loneliness when I was young. You've seen me there: on my promontory, patient and unaware.  But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.  I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together. 

this is how you lose the time war

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books read in 2024: emily wilde series by heather fawcett

There is nothing trivial about good coffee.

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every sapphic book i love → one last stop by casey mcquiston

I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice.

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"Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper." - William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene III

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1: A calm sea under a cloudy sky, seen over a stone wall / 2: A crowd of people sheltering as spray crashes over them / 3: The head of a statue draped in pearls / 4: The rigging of a ship / 5: A drawing of a young man reaching out of the sea to grab onto a rock. He is pale and dark-haired, and looks up with an expression of distress and fascination / 6: Old-fashioned script on parchment / 7: The lower body of a person standing on a beach. They have tan skin and are surrounded by billowing white fabric / 8: An ornate astrological clock. The visible hand is shaped like a sun / 9: Ocean waves / 10: The inside of a nautilus shell / 11: Lightning among clouds / 12: A pale-skinned person reclining amid mist or water, viewed in profile. Their arm hangs past their head and their back is arched / 13: A person's arms, hands outstretched in a gesture of offering or accepting. They have tan skin and are wearing a sheer white shirt with puffy sleeves / 14: A hallway surrounded by white plaster columns. Sunshine falls through arched openings, and there is a brown door visible at the end under another arch / 15: Astronomical diagrams / 16: A painting showing several shipwrecked sailors clinging to floating debris //End ID]

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books read in 2024 - no. 10

divine rivals by rebecca ross

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read in 2024: seven days in june by tia williams

“One thing,” she whispered, her lips by his jaw. She didn’t want anyone to overhear. “Before I forget.” “What’s that?” “Stop writing about me.” [...] In a voice both raspy and low, and so, so familiar, Shane said, “You first.”

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LITERATURE SERIES: Ghost Stories

“No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself.” ― Shirley Jackson

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books read in 2024 - no. 9

the heiress by rachel hawkins

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What books have you done this to?

Instagram / Shop

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The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.

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This was it. This last moment with my wrist wrapped in his hand, the afternoon light streaming in through the windows, bright and stagnant in a way only August light could be, that made his hair shimmer with reds and blonds.

I think I love you, I wanted to say, but not to this Iwan.

the seven year slip by ashley poston

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“please”, she begged the house silently. “i am a daughter of lethe, and the wolf is at the door.”

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read in 2023: to kill a kingdom by alexandra christo

I’ve made a mistake. It started with a prince, as most stories do. Once I felt the thrum of his heart beneath my fingers, I couldn’t forget it.

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books i’ve read ; The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams

"I've loved you since the day you tied my shoe on the track. You didn't tell me it was untied, you just tied it." "Bree, that was the first day we met." "I know. That's the day it all started for me."