The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
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BOOK MEME ⇒ [2/10] Series ⇒ Arcana Chronicles by Kresley Cole
“This game is a hell we’ve all been damned into. It’s designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing!”
why you should read “the master and margarita” by mikhail bulgakov
- 1930s moscow in which satan messes around
- there’s a scene of a party in which various animals like zebras are running around in a villa and this scene is based on an actual event
- one of the characters is a big black talking cat that loves vodka and poker and sometimes turns into a human
- there is a ginger vampire-witch queen who is always naked and rides her broom around to mess up places
- her name is hella and i am sure she is bisexual
- critics aren’t even sure what this book is about and there are at least ten different interpretations
- “’you can’t eat tiger meat,’ said hella.”
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.
He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise.
Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits (via antigonick)
“If I saw you every day, forever, I’d remember this time.” His dark eyes held her whole.
“How many times have you seen me? That I don’t know about?”
“Only three.”
“But here-“
“Is outside of time, and what I may see taking care of you does not compromise your privacy. That’s kept in its own place with your medical records. I’ll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You’re quite beautiful, Clarice.”
“Looks are an accident, Dr Lecter.”
“If comeliness were earned, you’d still be beautiful.”
“Thanks.”
“Do not say Thanks.”
A fractional turn of his head was enough to dash his annoyance like a glass thrown in the fireplace.
“I say what I mean,” Starling said. “Would you like it better if I said I’m glad you find me so. That would be a little fancier, and equally true.”
She raised her glass beneath her level prairie gaze, taking back nothing.
It occurred to Dr Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown.
Hannibal, Thomas Harris (via kissthefuture)
No one loves me,–no one cares for me, but you, mother.
John Thornton, ‘North and South’ (E. Gaskell)
“The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.“
otp quotes || clarice starling + hannibal lecter
Occasionally, on purpose, Dr Lecter drops a teacup to shatter on the floor. He
is satisfied when it does not gather itself together. For many months now, he
has not seen Mischa in his dreams.Someday perhaps a cup will come together. Or somewhere Starling may hear a
crossbow string and come to some unwilled awakening, if indeed she even
sleeps.We’ll withdraw now, while they are dancing on the terrace the wise Barney has
already left town and we must follow his example. For either of them to
discover us would be fatal.
You’re quite beautiful, Clarice.”
“Looks are an accident, Dr. Lecter.”
“If comeliness were earned, you’d still be beautiful.
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