Isn’t that reason enough to keep living? To rediscover simple delights one moment at a time, I mean. I used to count them on my fingers, reassuring myself there was still good in the world and reminding myself to keep looking for those blessings. Butterflies, fresh-baked bread, the crunch of leaves on an autumn morning, so on and so forth. They don’t have to be profound. I started with one: the scent of fresh-cut grass. […] What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time. —THE SUNSHINE COURT, NORA SAKAVIC

@lgbtqcreators creator challenge: literature, media from asia, gradient, magenta

he loves her. of this he’s certain. he loves her laugh; that sharp, sudden sound; the cynical laugh that always comes too quick, like it’s ripped out of her. he loves her quick, confident grin. he loves her resilience, her bravery, even her impulsiveness. she’s everything he’s not: unbound, reckless, free. he’s never known anyone like her. she terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.

It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.

THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO— By Taylor Jenkins Reid

THE OUTSIDERS; S.E. HINTON

sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. but all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. but all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.

SIMONE’S 1K CELEBRATION 🤝 + gansey siblings or the lynch brothers for @jeanmoreaux

beach read by emily henry

i always liked that thought, the way two people really did seem to grow into one. or at least two overlapping parts, trees with tangled roots.

the scarlet veil by shelby mahurin

do you have a death wish, mademoiselle? or is it the dead themselves who call to you?

CHAR POSTERS. KATNISS EVERDEEN

if we burn, you burn with us.

SIMONE’S 1K CELEBRATION 🤝 + ronsey or adansey for @singularities

@chbnet pjo show countdown event → 2 days left (the sea of monsters)

You shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, You shall find what you seek and make it your own, But despair for your life entombed within stone, And fail without friends, to fly home alone.

by @dallaswinstons

you, with a view by jessica joyce

"he doesn't trust me," i whisper. "he trusts you. he doesn't trust that what you have won't be taken away from him." he shakes his head. "if this is worth it to you, noelle, then be patient with our boy. it takes him three times as long to admit to his own happiness because he never knew he was allowed to have it."

@chbnet pjo show countdown event → 3 days left (the titan's curse)

There's always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

by @moirainesedai

he didn’t want to leave andrew with nothing, but what could he possibly say?

@chbnet pjo show countdown event → 5 days left

A half-blood of the eldest gods Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze

happy birthday, @enviies !

you think, as you walk away from le cirque des rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. you are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

–persuasion, jane austen. for @augustsjanes; happy belated birthday, too good, too excellent creature!

kitay was pure. he was the best person she had ever known. kitay shouldn’t know how it felt to call a god of vengeance. kitay was the last thing in the world that was still fundamentally kind and good, and she’d die before she corrupted that.

for @henwilsons, the other half of my soul.