#dark academic

“I testify that I am free and alive when I am forgotten.”

-Mahmoud Darwish

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

Loving you is like getting a thousand cuts in the heat…except, the bleeding never stops.

-nowthisisdark

“People always talk about falling in love but no one ever talks about falling out of it.”

-Alex Light, The Upside of Falling

The stars will go out before I forget you.

-Cassandra Clare

Ineed to stop romanticizing the thought of running away and starting a new life.

i want to plant roots like trees, forget i have feet, step forward and find myself stuck, stable, deep in the ground somewhere safe by a stream

ever loved someone so much you addressed their christmas card to “humanity’s answer to fear” because

shoutout to everyone who spends too long in the shower with their eyes closed, dreaming about rushing out into a rainstorm to feel something of the world on their skin

The Lady of Shallot (1888) by John William Waterhouse

inspired by an 1832 Tennyson poem