Tumgik
andreai04 · 9 days
Text
Tumblr media
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 11 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Perhaps I hadn't found parents or brothers or sisters, but I'd found a family regardless. Sitting with them at my table—in my home—that dream didn't feel so foolish, after all.
And I wanted it. Desperately.
1 note · View note
andreai04 · 14 days
Text
Tumblr media
A single choice made with the best intentions can become a terrible life. Imagine biting into a seemingly ripe fruit, only to have your mouth filled with rot.
0 notes
andreai04 · 14 days
Text
Tumblr media
Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way.
0 notes
andreai04 · 14 days
Text
Tumblr media
It should be easier to feel good.
0 notes
andreai04 · 15 days
Text
Tumblr media
Maybe Big Swiss had something to teach her about living. About taking responsibility. About eradicating self-pity and perhaps replacing it with something productive.
3 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 16 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Someday, I wouldn’t need to hoard Reid’s smiles, and someday, he wouldn’t need to ration them.
5 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 20 days
Text
Tumblr media
I had to pay the price. I had taken, and now I must give. Nature demanded balance.
10 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 21 days
Text
Tumblr media
Heidi had never felt so happy in her life. She drank in the golden sunlight, the fresh air, the sweet smell of the flowers, and wished for nothing better than to remain there forever.
4 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 22 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Rage didn’t simmer. It burned.
11 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 25 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
It was starting to sink in that for the rest of my life, the people I met, the people I became close to—there would always be a chance that they saw me as a payout.
30 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 28 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
I’d learned this much playing chess: The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers.
22 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 29 days
Text
Tumblr media
Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.
1 note · View note
andreai04 · 30 days
Text
Tumblr media
Bruises from those who should love you sting more than others. Deep and lasting, they bleed into your spirit, no matter how common they become. Something shatters with each strike, and it isn’t always bone.
2 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Love—love was a balm as much as it was a poison.
14 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
He had put me before his entire court, before all of Prythian.
20 notes · View notes
andreai04 · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
In every story, there’s a hero and villain. Sometimes one person can be both.
2 notes · View notes