Holly Black could have so easily fallen into the YA trap of pairing every teenage girl with a wise and mystical fae 8 times her age but no, Holly said here’s your mystical fae he’s like 19 years old and he’s dumb as shit
Everytime zar uses 'drowning' to describe how regulus feels in just lovers, I die a little
on a scale of 'how lovely to be a woman' to 'mama who bore me' how well did you emotionally handle hitting puberty
thinking about how Finny trusts gene unconditionally on everything, including the topic of Julius Caesar, a man literally stabbed in the back by people he trusted
nesta Made the House out of intense loneliness and isolation
"When you arrived here, what did you wish for most?"
"A friend. Deep down, I wanted a friend."
"So you Made one. Your power brought the House to life with a silent wish born from loneliness and desperate need."
pg 632
she literally created the House and its dark heart out of need for support
i’m madly in love with this book
sometimes a family is a government social worker, his phoenix husband, a gelatinous tentacle monster, a 235 year old dwarf, a tiny dragon, a dog, a nymph, another nymph, her girlfriend the mayor, and the literal antichrist and I think that that’s beautiful.
The Tarzan soundtrack really didn’t have to go as hard as it did
:)
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