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“ What are we, science or magic?
A tragedy, darling.”
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Sometimes we hurt the people we love most,
not because we want to,
but because no one has ever dared to come this close.
No one ever truly wants someone else to see their frayed soul.
Apollo still carries Icarus’s heart, all he could rescue of him from the water.
And I still carry every happy memory of what we were,
all I could rescue from the wreckage of where we pulled us apart.
Someone once said to me, “You would be so loved, if you just let people love you.”
/ A Conversation With The Sun God /
[insp]
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— hell is just a meeting room for the forgotten and the abandoned
(x)
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“I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad.
I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.“
(x) (x)
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an angel pulls clumps of feathers from his wings outside the gates of heaven. is this it? (honor
scorned, and clothes turned to rags) is this finally humanity?
a martyr rinses blood from his mouth and hands in a second-floor bathroom. is this it? (nerves
aflame, and linoleum spattered red) is this finally sacrifice?
(x) (x) (x)
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they say there was a child here,
once,
who stood where these gravebound feet tread.
they say these bloodhound hands used to belong
to an innocent
who never imagined the taste of iron
or sharks with a nose for wounded memories.
(x) [in*sp]
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splattered lights
across the canvas
wishes -
for those who are led
astray.“
(x)
Alec Lightwood Appreciation Weeks: Week 4 [ Favorite platonic relationship / group dynamic: Alec + Clary ]
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I loved and I loved and I lost you
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Someone should have already told you that.
(x)
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“ They say that when you die,
your soul goes back to the sea.
Do you hear the rushing in your ears?
Those are the waves, calling you into the dark.
But the ocean’s grip cannot match mine,
and I will drag you back to the shore -
To me ”
- Poseidon will not take you away, not while I still live
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“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut.”
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“— to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
(x)
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“Almost.
It’s a big word for me.
I feel it everywhere.
Almost home.
Almost happy.
Almost changed.
Almost, but not quite.
Not yet.
Soon, maybe.”
(x)(x)
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— You never wanted this, but you never had a choice; the gods don’t care what one broken boy wanted
(x)(x)
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There is thunder in our hearts, baby.
Tell me, we both matter, don’t we?
(x)
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But spring is mine. In the heat trapped between our cupped palms, I hold every spring on earth.
(x)
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Today is not today.
Today is another day,
sometime ago,
centuries past,
when there were kings and castles and dragons…
And unicorns.
A traveling mendicant once lectured you, when you were still little,
about how every human’s fate could be read in the stars.
Reading the stars was difficult, he had explained. Their book was written
in a language only angels might have spoken fluently, but in its pages
every future course had been outlined. It could no more be altered than
a quill could blot the sun with an inkspot.
(x)(x)(x)
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I know: You did not mean to be cruel.
That does not mean you were kind.
(x)
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I recognise
those tired eyes
with fond recollections
how we made them so
by the lush warmth of the fireside
through the night:
decadent movements.
Oh,
how those eyes and your body glowed.
(x)
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So desperate to prove
That our hearts aren't alone
While death looms wherewith
To make dust of our flesh
We seek in a myth
Our souls to enmesh
(x)
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because self-care is important!
sebastian + parks and rec part1 / ? [insp]
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a.k.a. a visual guide by Sebastian Morgenstern on how to act natural and fail when someone messes up your evil plan (งಠ_ಠ)ง
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face journeys with sebastian morgenstern part2 / ?
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Do you know how it is when one wakes
at night suddenly and asks,
listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
insatiable? Spring, a nightingale is singing.
…
I won’t return. I want to know what’s left
after rejecting youth and spring,
after rejecting those red lips
from which heat seemed to flow
on sultry nights.
(x)(x)
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And I’ve moved further than I thought I could
But I missed you more than I thought I would
(x)
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“There is no one else for me. I begin and end with you.”
(x)(x)
Alec Lightwood Appreciation Weeks: Week 3 [ Favorite parabatai moment]
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i. smear your lips in blood,
ii. dust your eyelids with stars
iii. kiss him hard, make him groan
iv. rip him apart, muscle from bone
v. breathe in, breathe out
vi. begin step one
(x)
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“Have courage and be kind.”
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