escapetheworldinbooks:

All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

“All eyes are on you. It’s time to show them what you’re made of. There’s no room for doubt, no room for second guesses, no room for error. This is your night. This is your game. This is your moment. Seize it with everything you’ve got. Pull out all the stops and lay it all on the line. Fight because you don’t know how to die quietly. Win because you don’t know how to lose. This king’s ruled long enough—it’s time to tear his castle down.”

adrwmnyrd:

 “I didn’t think I was a personal problem. You hate me, remember?”

“Every inch of you,” Andrew said. “That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t blow you.”

The world tilted a little bit sideways. Neil dug his shoes harder into the floor so he wouldn’t fall over. “You like me.”

“Newsflash asshole! I’ve been in love with you the entire goddamn time!” Andrew corrected him.

TFC Characters As Unique/Interesting Words

cigarettesmokeandexyracquets:

Dan:  Cynosure (n.) – A focal point of admiration.

Kevin:  Claptrap (n.) – Pretentious but insincere or empty.

Andrew:  Alexithymia (n.) – Inability to describe emotions verbally.

Matt: 

Petrichor (n.) – The pleasant smell of earth after rain.

Aaron:  Inure (v.) – To become jaded.

Seth:  Liberosis (n.) – The desire to care less about things.

Allison:  Glamour (n.) – Beauty.

Renee:  Apricity (n.) – The warmth of the sun in winter.

Nicky:  Hiraeth (n.) – A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.

Neil: 

Drapetomania (n.) – An overwhelming urge to run away.

Riko:  Backpfeifengesicht (n.) – A person who needs to be slapped; lit. “a face that needs a fist in it”.

Jean:

Énouement (n.) – The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.


Wymack:

Kintsukuroi (n)(v. phr.) – “To repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with fold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

Abby:  Redamancy (n.) – act of loving in return.

Betsy:  Nepenthe (n.) – Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.

Jeremy:  Komorebi (n.) – Sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.