“If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”
“It is because I love you that I won’t.”
I love these dialogues from Addies and Luc in the invisible life of addie larue. It totally represents two different perspectives on love.
Addie, like many people, thinks that love is purely selfless and good. (While she herself can have selfish actions or thoughts) Luc thinks that love is selfish, or at least can be. (Because to say that Luc is purely selfish would be quite hypocritical given all the events of the books and what he does there. Luc is much more complicated than that)
But I like that these two sentences summarize these two visions of love.
Love is selfless. Love is selfish. When in fact... it can be both, separately or together. Love can be something uniquely good and positive. Just as it can be negative. And sometimes it's both together. They are simply different forms of the same feeling.
All this to say that I hate when people try to say that love must be pure, good and selfless. It's bullshit. Whether in fiction or reality. The difference is that in fiction you can explore relationships with toxic connotations without risk, unlike real life or if there are red flags, you obviously have to just run to protect yourself.
Justice for romances like Luc & Addie, Jane Eyre & Rochester, Heathcliff & Catherine (Wuthering Heights), Coriolanus Snow & Lucy Gray Bird (The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Christine & Erik (The Phantom of the Opera), Thomas & Edith (Crimson Peak), Hannibal & Will (Hannibal), Hannibal & Clarice (Hannibal), Raistlin & Crysania (Dragonlance), Sarah & Jareth (Labyrinth), Qu Xiao Feng & Li Cheng Yi (Goodbye My Princess), The Darkling & Alina (Grisha), Mare & Maven (Red Queen), Julian & Jenny (The Forbidden Game), and so so many others...
Not without kidding, there are so many examples in general, but also that I know and love that it is impossible to cite them all !
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Just remember when Addie is at the marquise's house wearing her things, about to cover her freckles with makeup and Luc appears, with: “I would rather see clouds blot out the stars.”
DAMN HOT VILLAINS WITH DARK HAIR!!!!
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do u guys ever think abt how addie was covering her freckles with makeup and luc appeared and said "i would rather see clouds blot out the stars" and go a little bit insane? no? just me?
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“Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, @veschwab
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Addie La Rue & Luc
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“I can show you,” he purrs, letting the light settle in his palm. “Say the word, and I will lay your own soul bare before you. Surrender, and I promise, the last thing you see will be the truth.”
“You know,” she says, “I think I’d rather live and wonder.”
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab
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It's a beautiful tragic story, bittersweet, with sad end but to the unfinished story...
And this story by its nature can't be anything but unfinished.
It is not your typical epic story of love that conquer it all...
Some may say this story full of many little love stories.
One can argue that there's no love at all in this story, only passion, need, fear of loneliness.
There's no True love in that, they would say.
I would say it's about love...
love for beauty, for discovery, for wonder, for life...
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One thing I particularly like about The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is that Luc is right ; Addie shaped him.
She gave it a shape and a name.
I'm convinced that Luc didn't have a name before Addie gave him Luc's, or perhaps a very old name unpronounceable to humans, who knows. Or simply a title to designate the creature he is. But personally, I don't think he had any. After all, his first response to Addie's question was why he should have a name, not the one that he shouldn't tell her. Especially since if names do indeed have power in this universe as Addie and Luc say, it should be noted that yes, in the rest of the story Addie has power over Luc. Just letting her name it gave her power. It is precisely after this point in the book that the relationship really evolves. I don't think it's a coincidence. Names have power, and Addie begins to have a real influence on Luc after giving him one. (Therefore reinforcing my interpretation that he actually didn't have a name before Addie)
Also, she gave her a shape.
He have been used to taking on an appearance based on the people he met, and or simply speaking while remaining among the shadows, but strangely after taking on an appearance for Addie, he sometimes kept it beyond of her. This can be seen the first time he meets Henry. He presumably maintains the appearance Addie gave him outside of when he sees her. Which for a being such as Luc, is not nothing. Without forgetting the quote according to which Luc is deprived of stars at night, and that Addie, through her freckles, is rightly associated with the stars. Addie therefore helps complete Luc.
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Kneeling before me, he lays his head on my lap and says, ' I’m going to ruin you.'
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
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screaming giggling blushing kicking my feet!!!!! aaah!!!! they are so!!!!!
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Don’t text me: just cried my eyes out finishing The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I honestly struggled trying to finish this book just because it’s not what I usually read, but the last 50 or so pages had me crying the whole time. I even had a feeling I knew how it would end and it still twisted my heart out. I heard how good it was and pushed through and I’m so glad I did.
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