art & quote credit (gif credit):

| The Dedication, Edmund Blair Leighton / David Viscott | 1st gif maker @alvsanne

| Five young ladies playing in a park by Florent Willems / Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," | 2nd gif maker @zendayacolemann

| Im Rosengarten by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb | 3rd gif maker @lady-arryn

— gwayne hightower quotes ⊱⚜⊰ | the fox & the flower

• ❝I’m most adept at acquiring secrets from comely young maidens. I’ve yet to meet one which is a match for my silver tongue.❞
• ❝Would you care to dance? I’ve a difficult time believing you decided to attend merely to spectate. And to let a jewel as rare as you stand to the side as a wallflower all night would be a waste indeed.❞
• ❝So,❞ he says. ❝It is up to us to be whomever we wish to be tonight. To make our story as we want it. Tell me, my lovely lady, who are you?❞
• ❝It seems to me we should make the absolute most of this evening we share, then, should we not? Before you are stolen away from me come the morn.❞
• ❝And I do not intend to part with my quarry until she disappears into a fit of white feathers, leaving me heartbroken and yearning once more.❞
• ❝I've yet to hear a complaint in regards to my...chivalrous nature. I do so love to tend to damsels in distress.❞
• ❝I would never harm a woman. Nothing occurs between us tonight that you do not wish. I give you my word. I want only those who want me in return.❞
• ❝Have you ever considered allowing those perfect feathers to be ruffled, my little swan maiden?❞
• ❝There are other lips I might pleasure on your body.❞
• ❝It is just the two of us. I wish for tonight to be all you want it to.❞
• ❝Let me touch you. I beg of you.❞ (...) ❝Let me please you. End my agony, My Lady.❞
• ❝There you are, darling, show yourself to me. Allow me to see it. Let me watch you.❞
• ❝Gods, you are magnificent, aren't you? An astounding spectacle to behold, My Lady.❞
• ❝I must know who you are. Who it is which I've held in my arms all night. Who it is that I've had the pleasure of pleasing by mine own hand.❞
• ❝I make you this solemn vow, My Lady: I will guard the secret which is your identity with all that I am. That this night—our brief love story—shall follow me to my grave. None shall know, I assure you. You've my word. And my word is my bond.❞
• ❝Pleasure to meet you, niece.❞
• ❝What a prize it is.❞
• ❝May I not look upon beautiful things?❞
• ❝I’d considered that, perhaps, I might keep you warm. It would be a great travesty for my darling niece to catch cold while under my protection, would it not? And so early in her trip, at that.❞
• ❝Perhaps we just allow ourselves a bit of indulgence, just as we did that night.❞ (...) ❝Nothing more than…courtly romance. All very prim and proper, for your sake, of course—I know how precious your virtue is—just enough to titillate.❞
• ❝I fancy you. I cannot…move past that evening. How we met. Who I initially thought you to be. I know you are my niece. I do. I just…instead choose to see you as a comely young woman who brings me joy. And I merely wish to return the favor and the feelings you stir within me.❞
• ❝No. You are my niece. My family. My blood.❞ (...) ❝My princess. But also a woman who takes my breath away. Who, despite my absolute best efforts, I cannot manage to get out of my fucking head. All I do is want for you.❞
• ❝It is not as if I have any shortage of female suitors. But… They, like with your own, see me for what I am. Not whom. A man of a great house, son of the Hand of the King, brother to the queen, a gallant knight who has won many a joust, a future statesman. The list rows on.❞ (...) ❝But when I am with you… For the first time in all my life, I am merely Gwayne. Mayhaps uncle as well, but that is it. A familial bond is far more meaningful to me than a title bestowed upon me in an attempt to garner glory and notoriety.❞
• ❝Do I not make you feel the same? Do I not make you forget what you are, while instead reminding you of who?❞
• ❝I believe in the Gods and pray to them myself. But, let me ask you something: in all your life of confiding in them, have they ever granted you that which you most desire? That which will bring you joy, and save you from your solitude and woe? Or, have they, instead, remained silent pillars of stone?❞ (...) ❝Who is to say that this—what we've found—each other, is not a gift from them? It is said they work in mysterious ways. Mayhaps this is their answer to your prayers and mine own: bringing the two of us together in such a manner.❞
• ❝So help me Gods, Alicent. You will either give her to me to take to wife, or I will take her from you.❞
• ❝Please, sister, I beg of you. I adore her. I worship her. Let me make this right. Allow us to wed so none may know.❞
• ❝I do what I do for the good of her: the young woman I love. Do you not think it better she wed me, as opposed to some elderly stranger?❞

the height difference is everything .

toxic yuri + 🔪🔪🔪

i wanted to see the world through your eyes

until it happened.

natalie scattorcio: childhood

welll welllll hope you guys like this

hi yall 👋

happy Fuck you, Gansey. Fuck you. Friday!

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