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THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)

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This is elegant! And it captures how great the queen’s gambit was as a whole 😍😍😍😍

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Fitzsimmons + colors

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Two of my faves —- playing with colors and fitzsimmons 😍😍😍😍😍

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Bordados y talleres | Instagram: @bordaetumadre

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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

– Jane Smiley

The penguin popular classic books-stack!...

😍😍

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“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you.”

― Théophile Gautier, Ménagerie intime

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To see a world in a grain of sand

And heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

-William Blake.

A few days back, a stroll through the park brought my attention to this fierce wild flower, which was surrounded by only seedless, fruitless and flowerless bushes...It had no reason to have blossomed there with its perfect hues and texture and standing out, yet it did.

Its easier to be someone when everyone around you is similar, but its very difficult to be yourself when you’re surrounded by people who won’t grow, who won’t let you grow!

This little fierce flower on a random afternoon, showed me the vibrance of standing out and that sometimes its worth being in thrones if you can add your color to the world! 💔

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“I CAN SPEAK TO MY SOUL ONLY

WHEN THE TWO OF US ARE OFF EXPLORING DESERTS

OR CITIES

OR MOUNTAINS

OR ROADS.” – PAULO COELHO

Some roads seem endless that it never seems to cross the horizon after getting so close. Maybe if one stops chasing the horizon, one might see the beauty of the path! ❤️

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The sap

Wells like tears, like the

Water striving

To re-establish its mirror

Over the rock. —Sylvia Plath

Been waiting so long to read this one and i finally have it! Its gonna be a heavy poetry week! 😍🥰

And I also got to make my own book cover inspired bookmark 🤣😝

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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. - Leonardo Da Vinci.

Everytime I go back to the river, it breathes new inspiration, new meaning, new life into me.

It pulls you in with a frivolous gravity. It takes you to a world you cannot fathom in its absence. Water is life!

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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." -Alan Bennett

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Aren’t we enjoying a little study time 😜😍

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It is He who spread out the earth, placed firm mountains and rivers on it, and made two of every kind of fruit; He draws the veil of night over the day. There truly are signs in this for people who reflect.

13:3

Ar-Ra'd, Ayah 3

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Isn’t that just the cutest little face you’ve seen? ❤️❤️❤️

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‘You turn to Allah in appreciation and as a result, there’s a formula, there’s a rule.

The laws of nature will change if and when Allah wants them to’💯❤️

Nouman Ali Khan

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“Historical”Drama Watch Master List

As something to kill time during the quarantine, I’ve taken it upon myself to take all of the historical drama type shows that I currently have access to and watch them in chronological order by Universe.  I’ve got historical in quotes because while some are historical accounts, others are historical fiction, and a couple delve into the realm of fantasy.

These are the shows I have chosen to undertake

- Rome (HBO/BBC2) 2 Seasons, 1st Century BC

- Britannia (Amazon/Sky) 2 seasons, 43 AD

- Vikings (History) 6 seasons, 793 AD (forgot the BF deleted this one because no one was watching it because we were too busy watching The Last Kingdom)

- The Last Kingdom *rewatch* (BBC/Netflix), soon-to-be 4 seasons, 872 AD

- Marco Polo (Netflix) 2 Seasons, 1270s

- Knightfall (History) 2 Seasons, 1307

- The White Queen (BBC1/Starz) -  10 Episodes, 1460s

- The White Princess (Starz) 8 Episodes, 1480s

- The Borgia’s (Showtime/Bravo) 3 Seasons, 1490s

- The Spanish Princess (Starz) 8 Episodes, 1500s

- The Tudors (BBC2/CBC) *partial rewatch* 4 seasons, 1520s

- Gunpowder (BBC1) *rewatch* 3 Episodes, 1603

- The Musketeers (BBC) 3 Seasons, 1630s

- Versailles (Canal+) 3 Seasons, 1660s

- Black Sails (Starz) 4 Seasons, 1730s

- The Great (Hulu) 1 Season, 1740s

- Outlander (Starz) *rewatch* 5 Seasons (1750s-1770s/1940s-1960s)

- Alias Grace (CBC/Netflix) *rewatch*, 6 Episodes, 1843

- Strange Empire (CBC) *rewatch* 1 Season,  1860s

- Godless (Netflix) *rewatch* 7 Episodes, 1884

- Anne with an E (CBC/Netflix) *rewatch* 3 Seasons, 1896

- Howard’s End (BBC1/Starz) 4 Episodes, 1900s

- Downton Abbey, (NBC) 6 seasons, 1910s

- The Crimson Field (BBC1) *rewatch* 6 Episodes, 1914-1918

- Our Zoo (BBC1) *rewatch* 6 Episodes, 1919-1920 ~

- X Company (CBC) *rewatch* 3 Seasons - 1942-1943

- Narcos (Netflix) 3 Seasons 1970s

- Halt and Catch Fire (AMC) *rewatch* 4 season - 1980s

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Couldn’t have done a more awesome job... thanks a bunch 🤍🤍

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the trouble with writing is that it’s literally always easier to just lie facedown on your floor and make inarticulate noises

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“We woke in the mornings

to the stirring of olive trees in the breeze,

to the bleating of your grandmother’s goat,

the clanking of her cooking pots,

the air cool and the sun

a pale rim of persimmon to the east.” (Sea Prayer)