Libri Feminaeque Cano

Big old book nerd.

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[librifeminaequecano]

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts.”

— ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Erich Maria Remarque

[petitelappin]

The latest from my sketchbook.

[queenofattolia]

#one of the brontes pulls an illegal move and cassandra jumps in with a folding chair (@harrietvane​)

[librifeminaequecano]

“An elder had once taught me not to be afraid of death because there is no death—there is only a change of worlds.”

—Brandon Hobson, THE REMOVED

[librifeminaequecano]

“There is no safety, and there is no end. The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.”

-THE FARTHEST SHORE, by Ursula K. Le Guin

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https://twitter.com/gourmetmakes/status/1357458187717283841

[librifeminaequecano]

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”

- Amal El-Mohtar, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

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the 2005 Pride and Prejudice isn’t even a movie it’s an emotion

[librifeminaequecano]

“Cut wrong side into my skin are not canals and train tracks and a boat, but always: you.”

- Daisy Johnson, EVERYTHING UNDER

[teenscoolest]

Incase anyone was having a bad day

[didoofcarthage]

“Both robbed of air, we both lie in one ground, Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drowned.”

— Epigram on Hero and Leander, John Donne (via shakespeareandwine)

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[hadrian6]

Aeneas Sacrificing to Neptune. 1827. from illustrations of Virgil’s Aeneid. Anne Louis Girodet de Roussy Trioson. French 1767-1824. engraving.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[librifeminaequecano]

Aeneas got that booty tho

[mysharona1987]

[ratguzzler-deactivated20181213]

this is an england hate blog

[autisticmoonchild]

HOW IS THIS EVEN REAL? WHAT DID MY COUNTRY EVER DO TO ANYONE?!

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[autisticmoonchild]

oh sorry sweetie, i didn’t realise you still lived in the 1800s…🙄🙄

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[librifeminaequecano]

The calculated violence of a shark grew in her, and like every witch that ever rode a broom straight to the night to a ceremonial infanticide as thrilled by the black wind as by the rod between her legs; like every fed-up-to-the-teeth bride who was worried about the consistency of the grits she threw at her husband as well as the potency of the lye she had stirred into them; and like every queen and every courtesan who was struck by the beauty of her emerald ring as she tipped its poison into the old red wine, Hagar was energized by the details of her mission.

Toni Morrison, SONG OF SOLOMON