if alex could have told darlington anything, it would have been, ‘come back’ 

destroying things has always come easy to him - a far wilder magic, allison saft, 2021

the most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it

— they’d never kept secrets from each other. at least, she’d thought they didn’t

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even.

I am so sick of crying over them…those girls and what happened to each of them. My mother and what she dragged me into… and how I clawed myself out.

I want you to know...

I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you

the Dark is not a monster, it simply is

you don’t know yet what you’re capable of, but I’m willing to bet it’s extraordinary

I unravel the rage until it courses through my veins like fuel in an engine. I let it become a part of me, but not all of me. Hot, scorching pain under my skin, under my tongue, under my nails. I let it spread through me—until there is no more “before” and no more ‘after’. I am her and she is me.

for my bestie @vivihollow🖤

surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone i loved.