#the picture of dorian gray
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
— Sylvia Plath,The Bell Jar.
“Young Women Crocheting” (1875) painted by Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931)
i’m an introvert until someone starts talking about the moon or my favorite books.
happy earth day !!
“I want to write a novel about Silence,“ he said; “the things people don’t say.”
— Virginia Woolf,The Voyage Out.
the feeling of reading and getting lost in a different world >>
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
— Anne Frank
i love seeing people i don’t know adore things i love. i love going through tags of my moon posts and seeing others swoon over the moon as well. i love seeing people get excited over the rain. and i love when i come across someone who is just as obsessed as i am with a certain book.
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
— Donna Tartt,The Secret History.
books that actually have me giggling out loud are my absolute favorite.
30 Days of Pride Day 2- Oscar Wilde
Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright, his most beloved works being The Picture of Dorian GrayandThe Importance of Being Earnest. At the height of his fame and success, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Not long after his release, he died at age 46 from meningitis. Whilst imprisoned, he still wrote voraciously, stating in one letter,
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
In 2017, over 100 years after his death, Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967).
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