lovely, lovely

I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing.

[apoemaday]

Looking Back

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Remember me before I was a heap of salt, The laughing child who seldom did as she was told or came when she was called, The merry girl who became Lot’s bride, The happy woman who loved her wicked city. Do not remember me with pity. I saw you plodding on ahead into the desert of your pitiless faith. Those springs are dry; that earth is dead. I looked back, not forward, into death. Forgiving rains dissolve me, and I come still disobedient, still happy, home.

[dollwithkaleidoscopeeyes]

Utterly obsessed with these Shakespeare playbook covers from the late 1960s by Paul Hogarth

[deaddumbblonde]

pink (1989) by Kyoko Okazaki

[achasma]

The garden of Eden with the fall of man (detail) by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615.

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[thecryptkeeper]

hes literally puppy

[toramona]

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[meiselr]

1000 Picspams Challenge | #845 - Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

[hauntedsheephole]

some random woman’s thoughts: oh hey, he’s kind of hot.

Edward Cullen: Dear Diary. Today another WHORE vies for my affection. Existence is agony.

[briennesjaime]

There was a time, not very long ago, where we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1916, and my son, Nicholas, was the czar of Imperial Russia. 

[kittykitpanda]

Sirius Black high-fiving Lily Evans every time she raises her hand in class.

[lovelyreprise]

“To Hades ... all-ruling, holy god, with glory bright, thee sacred poets and their hymns delight, propitious to thy mystics' works incline, rejoicing come, for holy rites are thine.”

[miamiweisz]

And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror, and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry’s knobbly knees — Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life (GrandPré,1998). 

[lovelyreprise]

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

[mallahanmoxie]

THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Narnia Fancast

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.

Rohan Chand as Digory Kirke McKenna Grace as Polly Plummer Naseeruddin Shah as Uncle Andrew Rinko Kikuchi as Jadis Nonso Anozie as Frank I Angel Coulby as Helen I

[bymine]

trc characterts as flowers; revisited B L U E S A R G E N T : hydrangea symbolizes heartfel emotions, honeysuckle represents bonds of love, heliotropes represents eternal love, rhododendron are poisonous - “beware”, lilies represent purity.

[olearypoetry]

“Do not bother holding onto that thing that does not want you.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via rupikaurpoems)

[kazualbrekker-deactivated202011]

1.3k celebration: url edit for @bluevsargent

She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted her bike. She wanted her friends, who were also one-thousand-year-old condescending brats. She wanted to live in a world where she was surrounded by one-thousand-year-old condescending brats. [cr]

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