[museiums]

artist: felicia chiao

[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[thefugitivesaint]

George Henry Edwards II (1859-1918), ‘Spirit of the Deep’, “Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News”, Vol. 68, 1907-08 Source

[soracities]

“I met myself in you”

— Adonis, from ‘Transformations of the Lover’, The Pages of Day and Night (trans. Samuel Hazo)

[ddestroyangels]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci and the Femme Fatale by Arthur Hughes, 1863, detail

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

[artbyjuju]

adulthood is realising no one cares about you and the show must go on

[7pleiades7]

A Hamadryad (1893) by John William Waterhouse RA (English, 1849 – 1917), oil on canvas, approximately 158 x 59.5 cm (62.2 x 23.4 in), The Box, Plymouth

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet’s “i did love you once” and ophelia’s “indeed, my lord, you did make me believe so” is such an underrated gut punch. it’s betrayal it’s heartbreak it’s vulnerability it’s so over. truly no one is doing it like shakespeare

[sentrysvoid]

Dead Poets Society dir. Peter Weir | 1989

[quoteastic]

Sometimes happiness looks like staying at home, minding your business, telling people no and doing you.

[7pleiades7]

L'aube (Dawn) (1900) by Victor Prouvé (French, 1858 – 1943), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy

[jfaisal]

The type of conversations where they have to end only because of sleep

[mythologypaintings]

The Birth of Venus

Artist: Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)

Date: c. 1912

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, United States

[dumblr]

“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”

— Sally Rooney, Normal People

[landsccape]

[scribeherself]

May your Sunday be filled with soft chairs, good books, and the peace that only comes from getting lost in someone else’s words for a while.

[metamorphesque]

Inferno by Dante Alighieri (translated by John Ciardi) Paolo and Francesca da Rimini | Amos Cassioli, William Dyce, Gaetano Previati, Gustave Doré, Ary Scheffer, Nicola Monti