you’re gonna d i e in there. 

The Infernal Devices - Cassandra Clare

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. It’s a line from Horace. ’We are dust and shadows’. Appropriate, don’t you think?“ Will said. “It’s not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.”

they say time’s supposed to heal you, but i ain’t done much healing…

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

“Fate,“ Blue replied, glowering at her mother, “is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.“

Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall

book aesthetics - the raven cycle: upcoming gansey’s death
He was so real. When it finally happened, when she finally saw him, it didn’t feel like magic at all. It felt like looking into the grave and seeing it look back at her. “Is that all?” she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. “That’s all there is.”