#dark academia quotes

Reblog this with human things you find beautiful

• When people smile so wide, creases appear on their face. It’s like they’re so happy that they can’t keep it in

• Tanlines and age spots and freckles and scars and stretch marks and acne. Chapped lips, bleary eyes, broken nails, split ends. Anything that marks us as human and vulnerable and brave.

• h a n d s

• A stomach that has lots of rolls or none at all!!!!! It makes me so happy to think that that’s the place where your favourite foods are!!!!!!

It’s 2020, it’s time to stop putting so much importance and value on physical beauty. What is beauty, anyway? Everyone has a different definition of it. Stop judging others and stop judging yourself for their beauty not fitting into your version of it.

WE are beautiful and WE are radiant and no I don’t accept criticism

C.S. Lewis

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“Here it is, a book that represents the wholeness that I built after everything toppled.”

Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

“I wondered how many of them had wives waiting for them, mothers and daughters perhaps. What would those women think if they could see their menfolk, as they stood guard over us, the weeping, grieving survivors of Troy?”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra

“Injustice is in the natural order of things and I must begin to accept this fact.”

(Chapter V)

-Alessia Palmieri; The Chosen One

Fifth chapter out now on Wattpad.

“We angels do not need to sleep, much less to eat or drink, but sometimes we do it anyway for pure pleasure. The nights, therefore, for the guardians who watch over their protégés, when the latter are at home to sleep, represent the foundation of hours of reflection, reading, writing and intellectual growth.”

(Chapter V)

-Alessia Palmieri; The Chosen One

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

-Donna Tartt; The Secret History

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

-Donna Tartt; The Secret History

yeah, life is cool, but where is my secret lover, who shows up at my house in the middle of the night with several books to read together and analyze, under the sound of raindrops pattering on the window?

Nihil sub sole novum

Consummatum est

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“I’ve never felt anything for mortals other than pain for their cruel actions that lead to self-destruction, so it’s hard for me to understand what makes her so different in my eyes.”

-Alessia Palmieri; The Chosen One

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

-Oscar Wilde

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."― Ernest Hemingway

Some thoughts on Piranesi Ch. 1

If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

To my surprise, the book is completely different from what I thought it was going to be. I think all the posts I’ve seen never mentioned what it was about. Strange enough, I do love the narrator’s odd behaviours and obsession with over-collecting data in the place he inhabits. Like everyone else, I found the first few pages confusing but then got the hang of what was happening by the end of it. I’ve read a few reviews of my friends just to see their thoughts. I’ll start reading the second chapter tonight after I finish everything for today!

Oh and I’ve been watching the film Mary Shelley but I haven’t finished it, so that’s also on my to-do list. It, somehow, fits perfectly with this book.

nikita gill; from fierce fairytales

v. e. schwab; gallant

Robert M Drake, Falling Toward The Moon

—nikita gill; whispers from the wicked wood, from “fierce fairytales”