Onwards and upwards

The world existed to be read. And I read it.

[beauty-is-all-around]

[grayskymorning]

Ni Lynn

[floralls]

Oxford, Oxfordshire by Alixe Lay

[lathraios]

Autumn Vibes:

Quiet cafés | old libraries | misty mornings | walks down rain soaked roads | candles burning | cozy blankets | dark academia

Initially tagged by @sojournmichael 

[interior-design-home]

Arch way

[myfairylily]

[rabbitinthemeadow]

Come wayward Souls, That wander through the darkness, There is a light for the lost and the meek

// Part 11

[autumncozy]

By brianmcw

[whisperofvintage]

[katiemcgrath]

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont | Paris, August 2019

[derivings]

[lady-uskglass]

Our literary trip to Dublin was obviously filled with bookshops. Pictured here is #thewindingstairbookshop where I bought #onearthwearebrieflygorgeous and had a lively conversation about Shirley Jackson and all kinds of spooky reads. 🎃🍂 . . . . #books #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookishfeatures #booksofinstagramfeature #libraryofinstagram #reading #igbooks #igreads #booksofig #bookworm #ksiazka #ksiazki #czytambolubie #takczytam #analoguephotography #analoguevibes #bookstagrampl #lightinspired #vscocities #prettycity #cityscape #citygram #bookshop #booklover #dublin #igdublin (w: The Winding Stair Bookshop, 40 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ruj3wAF8h/?igshid=pkxe3jwvbxvb

[antiquery]

Jeanne d’Arc, Albert Lynch | Various Storms and Saints, Florence + the Machine

[astropunkk]

Virginia Woolf for the Signs

Aries: “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”

Taurus: “He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

Gemini: “Life is absurd, I simply seem to love the absurd element more than most people.”

Cancer: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, deep in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

Leo: “Why aren’t you with me? Oh, why? I do want you so frightfully.”

Virgo: “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

Libra: “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”

Scorpio: “To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?”

Sagittarius: “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

Capricorn: “How many people, she wondered, truly listen?”

Aquarius: “I am obscure and odd, very deeply odd.”

Pisces: “A smile of infinite irony, infinite sorrow, flitted and faded from her face. But she had communicated, shared her secret, passed her poison she would speak no more.”

[oskarswilde]

the goldfinch; when you feel homesick, he said, just look up. because the moon is the same wherever you go.

[misanthropic-drown]

[aqua-regia009]

The Queen of the Night from Mozart’s Magic Flute (1818) by Simon Quaglio

[retentionalfinitude2]

“My sense of what literature can be, my reverence for the practice of literature as a vocation, and my identification of the vocation of the writer with the exercise of freedom – all these constituent elements of my sensibility are inconceivable without the books I read in translation from an early age. Literature was mental travel: travel into the past…and to other countries. (Literature was the vehicle that could take you anywhere.) And literature was criticism of one’s own reality, in the light of a better standard.” –Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches