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i am literally begging you people to read the conqueror’s saga by kiersten white. please please please i feel like no one else has read it and it’s one of my favorite series Ever

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badass female warriors who will literally gut you if you step a toe out of line is what’s not only wanted but NEEDED.

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she’s a criminal. she’s the smartest woman in the world. she’s a self-made myth. she’s a bitch. she’s my poor little meow meow. she’s a saviour

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Ok but Jude “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse” Duarte and Lada “ I am not one of you, I am better” Dracul would be best friends and fill the hearts of their enemies whit fear

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Were you in love with him?”

“Yes,” I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. “Yes, I was.” It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.

I hope really hope that in alternate universe Oliver and James are together Dear God plz

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“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, ‘is where the tragedy is.”

― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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lit meme: [1/10] series or books → if we were villians but that is how a tragedy like ours or king lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.

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— if we were villains (2017)

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if you were weirdly obsessed with going to boarding school as a kid then you’re queer and mentally ill now

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“the difference / between prayer & mercy / is how you move / the tongue.”

— Ocean Vuong, from “Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Devotion”, originally published c. 2016.

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at my funeral, the audience will watch my favourite comfort movie and whoever checks their phone first gets disinherited.

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Francis Abernathy and James Farrow would both love and hate each other I fear

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i think that if we were villains and the secret history should kiss each other on the mouth

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The Secret History left me paralyzed, unable to move through, move on.

Books touch me and have huge impact on me. But they let me go on, with them in mind, doing whatever I need to in my life.

But this book. God. I'm stuck.

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rereading the secret history and getting to the part where henry finds out we landed on the moon. cackling gleefully. dumb rich boy. let me hug u

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just a normal friend group who do normal things together outside of class and don't have any terrible secrets to hide

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Listening to the audiobook of The Secret History narrated by Donna Tartt is so interesting. The way she speaks when talking as Richards Papen really stands out to me. I always read his parts with more of a nervous disposition because he always expressed how unsure he felt. His seriousness, and the fact that his character seemingly can be quite intimidating given proper circumstance alluded me until near the end of the book. She makes him sound so serious, disinterested, and a bit rude; I think it really helps speak to how she wanted us to visualize him as well as how he would be visualized by other characters.

It really shows the reason behind why the Greek class were weary of him during their first few meetings.