his smile deepened and he cocked his head to the side. it almost hurt to see him this way. “will you say it?” he asked.
I hesitated, feeling danger crowd in on me.
“aleksander,” I whispered.
his grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.
“again,” he said.
“aleksander.”
It wasn’t just what Baghra said that night. You lied to me.
You deceived me.
the grisha trilogy meme: [1/10] quotes
It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.
Y.A. LIT MEME [3/6 locations]
⇒ The Unsea (The Grisha Trilogy)
If it should be that I am hated by the world for the simple sin of loving you, then let me be despised.
Sankta, they cried. Sankta Alina.
My eyes burned with the smoke. The smell was sickly sweet.
Sankta Alina.
No one knew his name to curse or extol, so I spoke it softly, beneath my breath.
“Aleksander,” I whispered. A boy’s name, given up. Almost forgotten.