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“My body has acclimated, and now it craves what it should revile. An apt metaphor for other things.”

Lust Holly Black The Folk Of The Air Jude Duarte Jude Dependency The Wicked King Craves Mithridatism Acclimated

Book:The Wicked King

Source: The Wicked King

“A drop of the bloodred liquid of the blusher mushroom , which causes potentially lethal paralysis. A petal of deathsweet, which can cause a sleep that lasts a hundred years. A sliver of wraithberry, which makes the blood race and induces a kind of wildness before stopping the heart. And a seed of everapple- faerie fruit- which muddles the minds of mortals.”

Fantasy Holly Black The Folk Of The Air Jude Duarte Jude Poisoning The Wicked King Poisons Mithridatism Faerie Poisons

Book:The Wicked King

Source: The Wicked King

“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King Mithridates, who used to take small amounts of various poisons to render himself invulnerable to them, so can we diminish the looming shadow of our certain death by welcoming small doses of it – the thought of it- in our daily mental pattern. Paradoxically, it makes life more intense, more valuable, more satisfying.”

Life Death Contemplation Paradox Demise Desensitization Mithridatism

Author:Giannis Delimitsos