[deceptivelips]

[deceptiveminds]

Isn't it strange how powerful our intuition can be, as if we've lived this life before and are just retracing it? Every day, I already know what people will say and do.

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[wedarkacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[schwer]

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way." -- Charles Bukowski

[wedarkacademia]

“𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙?” ― Nikita Gill

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

[somedaybyallmeans]

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

— Jane Austen

[deviika]

Fariha Róisín // Franz Kafka

[deceptiveminds]

“if only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. and it never faded, and it never got stale. and then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”

-Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

[midsummerkissess]

a "look babe, i finished a new book" gf and a "tell me all about it" bf

[stem-procrastimate]

When you like a guy who's type is smart girls so you get both academic and male validation at the same time

[ovkiianos]

I love being an arrogant academic ngl

[deceptiveminds]

"Deceiving others. That's what the world calls a romance."

-Oscar Wilde

[sweet-child-of-night]

the reader urge to collect all the penguin classic hardcovers just for it’s aesthetics.

[prettygirlformula]

the things i would let henry winter do to me

[lone-nyctophile]

The academic urge to study every ancient mythology.

[tordenvejr]

maybe i will talk to the sea she’s as angry and as gentle as me