BlackSwan-Reviews

Karen is a 23 year old girl in love with skincare and books. In her time in which she is not shopping for new products or turning page after page, she is writing her upcoming novel or furthering her journalism career.

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[mua-princess]

♡ princess vibes ♡

[naturaekos]

Reminder

[excuse-you-dickwad]

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector c. 1961 photographed by Claudia Andujar: “Solitary…she was incredibly solitary. Powerfully so. She allowed the silence around her and within her roar.”

[florizels]

A prosthetic hand calibrates perfectly the stem of a glass or how to stroke a face is this how far we have come to make love easy Ghost limbs go spasm in the night You come back from war with the body you have

Adrienne Rich, Excerpt of Calibrations from Later Poems: Selected and New 1971-2012 (via florizels)

[gaywitches]

“…I dreamed you were a poem, I say, a poem I wanted to show someone… and I laugh and fall dreaming again of the desire to show you to everyone I love, to move openly together in the pull of gravity, which is not simple, which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing air.”

[anothermusic-blog]

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Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

[historicaltimes]

An 18 year old French Résistance fighter during the Liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944.

via reddit

[seventhstart]

This is Simone Segouin, an incredible resistance fighter. Her first mission was to steal a Nazi’s bike, and thereafter went on with her team to derail a train, blow up bridges, arrest 25 Nazis in a single day, and, well, liberate France. She’s still alive at the age of 90.

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[blacsuwan-reviews]

The Whispers of the Fallen: Descent cover reveal! 

Want to reader the first three books on the series? Head out to Kindle Unlimited and download the books for free! 

The release of the upcoming book will be on June 3rd at the BookCon! 

I will be posting soon my review of the first book on the series, Stay toon! 

[blacsuwan-reviews]

The Whispers of the Fallen: Descent cover reveal! 

Want to reader the first three books on the series? Head out to Kindle Unlimited and download the books for free! 

The release of the upcoming book will be on June 3rd at the BookCon! 

I will be posting soon my review of the first book on the series, Stay toon! 

[tomolland]

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours’ time by Mrs. Dursley’s scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley…He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter, the boy who lived!”

[duckbuttt]

[robertdowney]

[spacehitcher]

[barcarole]

Brother! I have not become downhearted or low-spirited. Life is everywhere life, life in ourselves, not in what is outside us. There will be people near me, and to be a man among people and remain a man for ever, not to be downhearted nor to fall in whatever misfortunes may befall me — this is life ; this is the task of life. I have realised this. This idea has entered into my flesh and into my blood. Yes, it’s true ! The head which was creating, living with the highest life of art, which had realised and grown used to the highest needs of the spirit, that head has already been cut off from my shoulders. There remain the memory and the images created but not yet incarnated by me. They will lacerate me, it is true ! But there remains in me my heart and the same flesh and blood which can also love, and suffer, and desire, and remember, and this, after all, is life. On voit le soleil! Now, good-bye, brother! Don’t grieve for me!

…When I look back at the past and think how much time has been wasted in vain, how much time was lost in delusions, in errors, in idleness, in ignorance of how to live, how I did not value time, how often I sinned against my heart and spirit, — my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, each minute might have been an age of happiness. Si jeunesse savait! Now, changing my life, I am being reborn into a new form. Brother! I swear to you that I shall not lose hope, and shall preserve my spirit and heart in purity. I shall be reborn to a better thing. That is my whole hope, my whole comfort!

From Dostoevsky’s letter written at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg to his brother Mikhail on December 22, 1849. He had been condemned to death (only to be revealed as a mock execution at the last moment) and had written a farewell the day before his supposed execution. 

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