Who’s dead? Besides everyone I’ve ever loved. —Liv Moore (via incorrectizombiequotes )
Advice to the witch children:
1. Step softly.
2. Coat your words in honey, but keep your nails as claws.
3. Listen to the ghosts.
4. Carry always a bird in your chest and a lion in your head.
5. Know that age is not wisdom, and there is as much to be learned from trees as from the books they become.
6. You were not born with a family. Make one.
7. Remember that a thing does not need purpose to have beauty.
8. Do not allow yourself to become chained to logic and order.
9. Revel in chaos, then bend it to your will.
10. Use your wide eyes for watching, your rabbit feet for running, your small size for slipping away unseen.
11. Let them underestimate you.
12. When you open your mouth and frogs leap out, do not be ashamed.
13. You are the changeling children, magic born into small bodies with untried hearts.
Do not waste them. —kem (via byegods)
Things bled. They bled and bled and would not stop bleeding. There would be no dramatic end, she realised, only a slow withering […] bleeding and more bleeding. —Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (via soracities)
My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you. —Aeschylus, Agamemnon. (via vulturehooligan)
Adulthood slipped up on you. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not. —

Cinda Williams Chima,

The Exiled Queen

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Because saving the people you love isn’t stupid. It isn’t even a choice. —Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos
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How quietly we endure all that falls upon us. —Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via efruse)

╰  ˚・` ✧                META   001 .      //      magic !

          d/avina’s   use   of   magic   is   extremely   unique   to   herself .          she’s   extraordinarily   powerful ,   though   she’s   never   had   any   training .          she   was   raised   with   the   knowledge   of   her   potential   and   was   selected   for   the   harvest   ritual   at   sixteen ,   but   before   this ,   there   was   no   mention   of   her   ever   having   been   taught   by   her   mother .          she   mentioned   to   josh   that   all   the   power   she   held   was   siphoned   from   the   other   harvest   girls ,   and   that   she   doesn’t   know   what   she   has   without   that   power . 

given   that   she   never   had   any   legitimate   teacher ,   this   produces   a   style   of   magic   that’s   not   only   messy ,   but   can   be   extremely   detrimental .          it   wasn’t   only   that   the   power   dwelling   in   her   from   the   harvest   girls   was   too   much   for   her   to   contain ,   it   was   that   she   didn’t   have   anyone   to   reign   her   in ,   even   after   the   ritual   was   completed   and   her   magic   simmered .          so   even   now ,   though   she’s   essentially   taught   herself   the   works ,   a   lot   of   her   magic   should   be   much   more   unhinged   than   canon   would   show .

she’s   spent   the   majority   of   her   time   being   a   lot   more   powerful   than   she   knows   how   to   handle .

* 001 .     /     SIPHONED   ALL   THE   POWER   OF   THE   HARVEST .

* 002 .     /     HELD   REGENCY   OVER   EVERY   COVEN   IN   NEW   ORLEANS .

* 003 .     /     MADE GATEKEEPER OF ANCESTRAL MAGIC .

that’s   a   hell   of   a   lot   of   power   for   a   kid   who   never   had   any   training ,   and   the   issue   is   this   cycle .          vincent   believed   she   was   ready   to   become   regent   because   she   was   the   harvest   girl ,   despite   that   power   literally   killing   her .          and   because   she   was   made   regent ,   he   believed   she   should   hone   the   key   to   ancestral   magic   when   the   link   between   the   two   planes   was   put   back   together . 

tldr   ;   she’s   incredibly   powerful ,   but   it   shouldn’t   be   as   concise   as   we’re   lead   to   believe . 

for   fun   though ,   here’s   some   people   talking   about   her   magic !

*   CHARACTER  FLAWS  MEME  .

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RULES :     bold   all   that   apply   to   your   character   (   italicize   the   ones   that   are   iffy   ) .
TAGGED BY :     @slainst !
TAGGING :     @unsolvedcase ,  @atlaswolf ,  @titstm ,  @sunbruise ,  @maryjne ,  @astrega ,  @feathertricked ,  @girlmartyr ,  @fierceli !

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