marie

books.

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Ashleigh Izienicki

[shutinthenutouse]

[precision-instrument]

I cannot emphasize this enough as a practical life skill: learn how to say no to authority figures. Learn how to tell them that nothing they can do to you will change your mind. Disappoint your parents. You have to live your own life.

[flowerytale]

Janet Fitch, from White Oleander

[soft-lovely]

elaborate book covers

[shisasan]

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟷𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: Today, painfully tired, spent the afternoon on the sofa. END ID]

[lone-nyctophile]

[rueyam]

the older i get the more sensitive i become to warm genuine words, like wow you really think that kindly of me? hold up, lemme cry

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“My biggest mistakes in life have all stemmed from giving my powers to someone else - believing that the love others had to offer was more important than the love I had to give myself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

[galina]

Leaving London for a week–– I always miss the city, looking forward to being back already (and who can blame me, just look at this light in the library)

[fairydrowning]

"Alone, like a verse from a lyric with no beginning and no end. Alone, like the cry of a heart in the wilderness."

– Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

[fairydrowning]

When Albert Camus wrote "somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody."

[peacefulandcozy]

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[thoughtkick]

“as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.”

— Unknown

[optimistic-nihilist]