Ayo With Her Parents Watching Her Name Being Engraved. Her Dad In Full Nigerian Traditional Attire And

The ladies from The Priory of the Orange Tree

It’s been a while since I’ve fallen so deeply in love with a book. And when I love something I usually feel the need to make art.

Also, it’s funny how my style has changed a bit since I started drawing more digitally, I like it.

Just thinking about how this might be the most accurate meme I’ve ever made

Meg: Ead can’t be good at everything. Maybe she’s a bad kisser.

Sabran: No, she’s good at that too.

Meg: What?

Sabran: What?

EVERYBODY STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND GO SHARPEN YOUR KNIVES

The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree.

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory’s purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother’s past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat.

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if you don’t get to strap a knife to your thigh underneath a flowing ballgown while dancing with your rival at least once then what is the point

The Priory of the Orange Tree Quotes

“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.” p. 109

“We are charged for today, not for yesterday.” p. 139

“Ghosts were the voices the dead left behind. Echoes of a soul taken too soon.” p. 146

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed — but never think that you are the night.” p. 203

“Let us not speak of death when there is still so much life to be lived.” p. 346

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.” p. 536

“Fair roses have grown from twisted seeds.” p. 542

“My hearts knows your song, as yours knows mine.” p. 615

(These page numbers are from the paperback)

The Priory of the Orange Tree 🍊

referencing "Lilith and Eva" by Yuri Kaplouh

like i know everyone’s like heliotrope for laura lee (eternal love yada yada yada) but i never made that connection initially bc laura lee seems to be in (mostly) in pastel pinks and yellows and her in heliotrope felt less significant (like the small flowers in her dress during the crash or wtv) but it probably means that lottie pays attention to laura lee more than the average viewer,,,, anyway the real question is has anyone made a whole think piece on laura lee matching lottie’s medication colors in the baptism scene

anon i love you for this

laura lee's style is so important to me actually. starting with the fact that on the pilot she literally wear a yellow. jacket. and i don't know about you but i think they could've made the "super religious girl" wear more subdued/solemn/sober colors and clothes. instead laura lee is so bright. she's cheerful yellow, baby blue, pretty pink! there's something important and gay there, okay?

and now lottie paying attention to the little details about laura lee? yeah! absolutely! she knows the exact name of the shade of purple in the little flowers of one of her dresses. totally normal and platonic behavior there miss matthews!!

now look

this is... this is actually crazy okay? this is insane stuff. this is the kind of thing that will make me lose my mind and i REFUSE to believe this is a coincidence okay?!

it's about lottie needing something or someone to help her deal with her visions, with her mental health, with everything. the pills controlled her visions, laura lee explained them. when lottie lost the pills and thought she would lose herself she found laura lee instead (and lost her too oh my god). the comfort, the relief, the trust she put on laura lee. she used to rely on her medication now she relies on laura lee. the two things that could soothe her mind but in very different ways!! and i'm not exactly saying laura lee was the right answer but it's about the way lottie held onto her in these trying times!!!!

Sabran Berethnet from The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

(aka one of my favorite books in a while - it’s got like everything I love. go read it right now.)

you’re telling me a gay coded this