Cause life imitates art

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.” — Louise Erdrich

[percyjackosn-archive]

@storyseekers event 02: pride — if we were villains

james and i put each other through the kind of reckless passions gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. after all that, was it really so strange?

[mostlyghostie]

I've finally finished this one! An untidy, yet cosy fantasy/sci-fi bookshop, with a stack of old paperbacks on the counter.

Prints available here

[stfuprashu]

Casual intimacy is my favourite thing in the entire world. A tiny touch on your back in crowded areas. They're sitting across the table and give each other a light kick. A head on the shoulder, a hand in your hand, or a squeeze on the arm as they pass by. And I believe that perhaps love is composed of the simple things rather than large gestures or explosive shows. The small gestures that convey concern and presence and that there is no need to consider them since casual intimacy just naturally arises because of how deeply your life has been entwined with mine. The little things that say I am here and I care for you.

[dedanaan]

[grahamsgarrett]

What she needs are stories. Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget. Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books. Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab

[blogbibliophilia]

[livesunique]

Woodlands Vale, Ryde, Isle Of Wight,

Courtesy: Winkworth

[southfarthing]

20 YEARS WITH THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (18 DEC 2002)

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why.

[daugterofliterature]

drink your coffee. read your books. it's chaos out there.

[isnt-itlovelyy]

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

[evenstar-ing]

thinking about sam gamgee and how he was just a little guy, a gardener and an average citizen, who saw his friend and the world in need and didn't even hesitate to march into hell for them. I'm going to mordor alone sam yes sir and I'm going with you. he said don't you abandon him samwise gamgee and i don't plan to. it's your sam don't you know your sam. it's only a passing thing this shadow. there's some good in this world mr frodo and it's worth fighting for. tell me about samwise the brave frodo wouldn't have gotten very far without sam. dont leave me here alone don't go where i cant follow you. I can't carry it for you but i can carry you.

[rarestrangeyetmarvelous]

Illustrations by Ul de Rico

[queensinchains]

@fantasysociety​ game 07 | childhood favorites | alice’s adventures in wonderland

a dream is not reality but who’s to say which is which?

[lastfairyonneptune]

ideal vibe

[editasia]

[corkwooood]

#overwhelmed period drama men

JANE EYRE (2011) | EMMA (2020) | FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (2015) | PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) | SANDITON (2019- )

[keatingwilde]

soon it will be autumn, and i'll have a cup of warm tea, an old, unread book with crinkled pages, and the leaves would be a beautiful shade. everything would be alright again.