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ミ☆ ❝may those who accept fate be granted happiness; may those who defy fate be granted glory.❞ | 26 | they/she | 📖 26/25
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"Once upon a time, there was a girl as cunning as the fox in winter, as hungry as the wolf at first frost, and as cold as the icy wind that kept them at each other's throats."
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Once upon a time, there was a girl as cunning as the fox in winter, as hungry as the wolf at first frost, and as cold as the icy wind that kept them at each other's throats."
"If a young lady did not wish to be murdered, it was advisable that she not spend her evenings meeting with strangers on dark street corners."
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"If a young lady did not wish to be murdered, it was advisable that she not spend her evenings meeting with strangers on dark street corners."
"Strange, the powers you find sometimes, in a garden at the end of the road."
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Strange, the powers you find sometimes, in a garden at the end of the road."
"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."
4 books i'm dying to read ✨
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
4 books i'm dying to read ✨
"When you have had every freedom pared from you, you learn to hoard the manner and time and method of your death: it becomes the only thing that is really yours."
October 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"When you have had every freedom pared from you, you learn to hoard the manner and time and method of your death: it becomes the only thing that is really yours."
"I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left."
September 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left."
"I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones."
August 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones."
"People are often frightened by the night, but it is in daylight where the real monsters hide. They wear smiles, and they are loved—or else, believed. Those are the most dangerous."
July 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"People are often frightened by the night, but it is in daylight where the real monsters hide. They wear smiles, and they are loved—or else, believed. Those are the most dangerous."
"When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own."
July 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own."
"I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."
June 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."
"My mother may be too weak to protect herself, and my sister too young. But I'm neither of those things."
June 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"My mother may be too weak to protect herself, and my sister too young. But I'm neither of those things."
"It was the power of compulsive creation. The power of gods. Such a shame, she thought, that the only way he could access it was through pain and anguish."
May 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"It was the power of compulsive creation. The power of gods. Such a shame, she thought, that the only way he could access it was through pain and anguish."
"Her heart turned itself inside out, read aloud the writing in red on her arteries and valves, told her pointedly that love was never wholly the grand battles and explosive deeds."
May 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Her heart turned itself inside out, read aloud the writing in red on her arteries and valves, told her pointedly that love was never wholly the grand battles and explosive deeds."
"Regret would always clothe her in a heavy shroud, change the way she moved and the way she met the world. But so too did love. And it was warmer, thicker."
May 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
"Regret would always clothe her in a heavy shroud, change the way she moved and the way she met the world. But so too did love. And it was warmer, thicker."
"Broken things called to broken things, tried to slot their shards together in the hopes that they would fit."
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"Broken things called to broken things, tried to slot their shards together in the hopes that they would fit."
"This house eats and is eaten...
A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic."
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic."
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
May 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"This house eats and is eaten...
A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic."
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic."
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
"Cut down deep and grab what beats beneath, and it is love that will survive after everything else has perished."
May 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Cut down deep and grab what beats beneath, and it is love that will survive after everything else has perished."
"Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora's box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn't have such ghastly claws of its own?"
April 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora's box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn't have such ghastly claws of its own?"
"There are thousands of monsters in the world—not just the ones in folktales, but the ones in real life who push girls in front of trains—and yet, there are still people who think Cora Zeng is the most fearsome of all."
April 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"There are thousands of monsters in the world—not just the ones in folktales, but the ones in real life who push girls in front of trains—and yet, there are still people who think Cora Zeng is the most fearsome of all."
"Why look at a defenseless girl when the obvious monster bared its teeth? She'd forgotten that terrifying creatures were often wronged girls."
April 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Why look at a defenseless girl when the obvious monster bared its teeth? She'd forgotten that terrifying creatures were often wronged girls."
April 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If you want some good horror/thriller with autistic (and queer) characters, you've gotta read The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle!
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
April 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you want some good horror/thriller with autistic (and queer) characters, you've gotta read The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle!
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
This is what I have on my "Up Next" list in Storygraph, so we'll see how that goes 🙂↕️
I think the most interesting to me are Immortal Dark (vampires) and Foul Lady Fortune (historical espionage)
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
I think the most interesting to me are Immortal Dark (vampires) and Foul Lady Fortune (historical espionage)
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
April 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is what I have on my "Up Next" list in Storygraph, so we'll see how that goes 🙂↕️
I think the most interesting to me are Immortal Dark (vampires) and Foul Lady Fortune (historical espionage)
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
I think the most interesting to me are Immortal Dark (vampires) and Foul Lady Fortune (historical espionage)
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
"The snow may fall, but the sun also rises."
April 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"The snow may fall, but the sun also rises."