[theoptia]

Dan Pagis, from “Autobiography”; translated by Stephen Mitchell

Text ID: my parents invented grief, / I invented silence.

[lentils36]

the secret history, donna tartt

[arcusxx]

art by Junaid Mortimer ( my edits )

[williamsherondales]

No one knew his name to curse or extol, so I spoke it softly, beneath my breath. “Aleksander,” I whispered. A boy’s name, given up. Almost forgotten.

[phy-be]

monster’s cruelty 

dialogue from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

[existential-celestial]

Anne Carson,  from “The Glass Essay,” in Glass, Irony, and God

[catlaila]

I poisoned my skin, my lips. So that every time he touched me—every time he kissed me, he took sickness into his body. I had to purge it from my skin, then heal the burns the lye would leave. Every single time. It was well worth it.

for @zoyagenya​ ♡

[vicisse]

“I’m the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”

[zoyanikolai]

@marauderseranetwork event ✧ favorite quotes

“i think you’re like james,” said lupin, “who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”

[artbyflor]

"-How come she married him? She hated him!

-Nah, she didn't"

[aleksander--morozova]

MODERN DARKLINA AU

[aqua-regia009]

Through Cataclysm - Andreas Birath

[1-800-amortentia]

manifesting 🙏🏼

[padfoot-prongs-and-prongslet]

Sirius, groaning: I didn’t even want to be born. Why do I have to wake up?

[hylialeia]

we all have a limit to the bad things characters can do until we're not comfortable liking them but tbh some of you are just super fucking boring

[cissaswife-deactivated20210701]

"My child is fine!" Your child wants to be fucked by the Black Sisters at the same time.

[alanzaveri]

collecting sad pathetic male characters like they are stuffed animals to arrange on my bed