This parallel between Red, white and royal blue & From Blood and Ash-
"You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundation years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they're inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system."
And
"You just replace your last memory - a bad one - with a new one - a good one - and you keep doing that until the initial one no longer outweighs the replacement."
Many boys will bring you flowers. But some day you'll meet a boy who'll learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.
~Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows.
thinking about how AARON. ALWAYS. FELL. IN. LOVE. WITH. HER. every single time.
“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys." “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
~A Court of Mist and Fury, SJM
“We say like calls to like, girl. But if the science is small enough, then we are like all things. The light lives in the spaces between. It is there in the soil of that mountain, in the rock and in the snow. The Cut is already made.”
~ Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
“We all bear scars, Dorian. Mine just happen to be more visible than most."
~Aelin Galathynius,Tog
The parallels between when Daphne Bridgerton said "Leander swam Abydos to Sestos every single night in complete darkness just to see his love." And then "Leander also lost his way and drowned. So the story goes."
And when Henry said "Dear Thisbe, I wish there weren't a wall. Love, Pyramus." And then “Alex, Thisbe and Pyramus both die at the end.”
I think about these a lot...
*bangs head against a wall dramatically*
“Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here’s one: Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway. It doesn’t matter if the boy with the heart of stone was the villain. It doesn’t matter if he got what he deserved. No one’s heart has to remain stone.”
~Holly Black, Hthkoelths
As Dante was watching me search the sky through the lens of a telescope, he whispered, “Someday, I’m going to discover all the secrets of the universe.”
That made me smile. “What are you going to do with all those secrets, Dante?”
“I’ll know what to do with them,” he said. “Maybe change the world.”
I believed him.
~Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
THIS ESPECIALLY HOW MARY DIED FOR SHERLOCK BECAUSE SHE KNEW JOHN NEEDED HIM AND JEM WAS OKAY WITH DYING BECAUSE HE KNEW WILL AND TESSA WOULD TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER I CANNOT-
ok but
Herongraystairs and Sherlock x John x Mary r so similar
there r few inconsistencies ofc but like. yeah.