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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
I had finished One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London a few days ago, and this particular passage just made me go feral. I love it.

"I'm afraid that you're looking for your next chapter, and I'm looking for the whole rest of the book."


Currently reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab after the years time I've spent waiting for it to be released. There's so many gorgeous passages in it, but some that's really stuck out to me thus far have been:

Don't you remember, she'd told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke?

Darling, he'd said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.



"You cannot decline."

One dark brow lifts, but there is no amusement in that face.

"I am not some genie, bound to your whim." He pushes off the tree. "Nor am I some petty forest spirit, content with granting favors for mortal trinkets. I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play. And tonight, I say no."



Sure, she dreams of sleepy mornings over coffee, legs draped across a lap, inside jokes and easy laughter, but those comforts come with the knowing. There can be no slow build, no quiet lust, intimacy fostered over days, weeks, months. Not for them. So she longs for the mornings, but she settles for the nights, and if it cannot be love, well, then, at least it's not lonely.




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the narrative
aliasCel, Nightlock
pronounsShe/They
820written posts
CELearned bits
offlinecurrently
CEL
Part of the Furniture
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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
Cecilia'd tried to define love for a good half of her life. How strange is it to think it can be found with a witch who lies as easily as he breathes, collects secrets like beads, and whose method of bargaining would be to grin as he upturns the board without reprieve, damn everything else. The very same witch whose eyes are too warm, and whose smile is too dimpled, and whose moods can shift as easily as her own. Almost like those dances they've grown so fond of together; it takes two.


I may or may not be soft for writing quiet romantic moments--



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