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Liminal: The Little Man

Lydia Davis

#lydia davis #I’d die for this woman #she’s amazing #the fact I didn’t know about her til this year is criminal #short story #short stories #classic literature #lit student #academia #light academia #bookblr #poetry

“He dangles his feet over the end of the bath, and she leans her head against his ankles, and they both close their eyes.”

Jon McGregor- Even the Dogs

#hit me like a sack of bricks this did #love in a sentence #Jon is going to hurt me again I can feel it #i love this man but his writing devastates me every time #light academia #literature #dark academia #jon mcgregor #even the dogs

Halfway through Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl and I’m loving that the entire book is a bimbo shapeshifter fucking everything that moves.

#this generalisation is to help me cope with DIANE #what a bitch #Paul deserves better #I don’t claim to understand this book yet #literature #light academia #dark academia #bookblr #paul takes the form of a mortal girl

metamorphesque

— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Outside it is warm and blue and April.]

#april #sylvia plath #the journals of sylvia plath #quotes #literature #spring #classic literature #dark academia #dark academia aesthetics #romantic academia #light academia #today :)

Samantha King Holmes| She fits inside these words.

#there are not enough poems about guilt.#literature #poetry #she fits inside these words #Samantha King Holmes

“I love him, she thought with a kind of wonderment. I never intended to, but now I do.”

#my favourite quote from small pleasures so far #it’s pretty #light academia #literature #dark academia

maryolive

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

Waterstones stop selling books that are so pretty pls my bank account can’t take it

#they’re so!!!!#did not buy any of the books I actually need for uni but oh well #very excited to read them both #light academia #dark academia #literature #the female eunuch #small pleasures

aetomorfia

chaotic academia is ilegally downloading 18 books from a suspicious website

#my entire history coursework was researched using this method #chaotic academia my beloved

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.”

#EVELYN HUGO!!#I finally read it lmao #it wasn’t my favourite thing ever but this quote fuckin. stuck with me #light academia #dark academia #seven husbands of evelyn hugo

ofbooksandbread-deactivated2025

alright bitches it's sweater season let's get this fuckin show on the road

#TIME TO READ BOOKS IN COFFEE SHOPS WHILE ITS RAINING OUTSIDE #gotta read some dark academia and contemplate life

literarydeor

#this is the life I wish I was living #oh to be in a field holding old books #and perhaps I have a very good female friend with me #what if we read books in a field together… and we were both girls #😳😳😳

OBSESSED with my 10th anniversary edition of the song of Achilles

#yes this is the one my last post was about #ITS SO PRETTY #worth every penny #when I’m living off of like one pot noodle at uni I’ll think of this and will no longer need food #the song of achilles #madeline miller #circe #light academia #dark academia #literature

Me: doing a decent job of saving for uni and not spending money on things I really don’t need

Waterstones: HEY look at this 10th anniversary HARDBACK edition of the song of Achilles it’s BEAUTIFUL and has GOLD bits on it!!!!!!! Preorder now or PERISH!!!

Me: …… fuck

#true story #I hate my spending habits #but it’s so pretty!!!#the song of Achilles #light academia #dark academia #literature

I’m going to the airport tomorrow!!! You know what that means!!! Bulk buying books at duty free!!!!!

#I’m so excited #gotta get my to read list up before I go in #dark academia #light academia #poetry #literature

“She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. every mistake she had ever made. every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she has suppressed.

She imagine accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.

She imagine seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best.

And I’m doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.”

#from: the midnight library by Matt haig #this part just.#I am EMOTIONAL #Matt haig why do you hurt me like that #but also keep doing it pls I love this book #the midnight library #literature #light academia #dark academia

resqectable

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

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