Lost in Books

26● ISFP ● Dark Academia enthusiast ● Bibliophile ● Nature Lover

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "Born of debauch and separation," featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

[lost--in--book]

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

- Shatter Me, Taherah Mafi

[mournfulroses]

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "the curse of medea," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[lost--in--book]

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people.

I thought, This is what it is to be happy."–

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Daphne du Maurier

[wedarkacademia]

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage

[lost--in--book]

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

- Khalid Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

[moxrglory]

“you cannot find peace by avoiding life” - Virginia Woolf

[lost--in--book]

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language

[girl-on-films]

she adores pretty things and witty words

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

[lost--in--book]

[quoteastic]

The worst pain is getting hurt by the person you explained your pain to.

[heylsgowt]

[lost--in--book]

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[mournfulroses]

Nina Mclaughlin, from "Wake, Siren," originally published in November 2019