nina had grieved for her loss of power, for the connection she’d felt to the living world. she’d resented this shadow gift. it had seemed like a sham, a punishment. but just as surely as life connected everything, so did death. it was that endless, fast-running river. she’d dipped her fingers into its current, held the eddy of its power in her hand. she was the queen of mourning, and in its depths, she would never drown.
get to know me meme - favourite books (1/5) : six of crows by leigh bardugo
Let me be frank -
White washing Jesper Fahey doesn’t just mean lightening his skin and not making him black. It means giving him a thin nose, it means giving him straight hair, it means giving him thin lips and otherwise drawing him as white with brown skin. It means not giving him the same love and attention to detail as everyone else in the Dregs. Do Jesper Fahey right and learn how to draw diverse black features. Afro that he puts into cornrows for big jobs, big wide bridgeless nose with flared nostrils, and hyperpigmentation. Give me a straight up Nigerian gap tooth because he inherited it from his mom. Give him black features. Give him features that aren’t eurocentric beauty standards. Give him a mix of them or all of them! Being multiracial (which I am!) Does not mean he’s dark white. Most of us have dominant black features. He’s described as being dark and very Zemeni in appearance other than his eyes. Don’t take this away from us.
when i first joined the dregs, i started seeing a shrink. but then he told me i had dad issues, and i was like, "you know what, you can't tell me what to do, you're not my dad," so he was a moron.
INEJ GHAFA | she was inej ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare.
kanej + favorite quotes
The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
(for @andromedes. ♡)
The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible.
No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for good luck.
(re)reading // six of crows, leigh bardugo
you can only sharpen a blade so far