This Wilde World

18 || psychology major || chaotic academia

[psychacademia]

That one line by Benjamin Alire Saenz, “I bet you could find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand,” is so frickin soft and pure I-

[honeygrandpa]

[metamorphesque]

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”

1. Hermann Hesse | 2. Christine Wu | 3. Warsan Shire | 4. Bethany Zwag | 5. E. E. Cummings | 6. Wakamatsucho 若松町 | 7. Clementine von Radic | 8. Christine Wu | 9. Maya Angelou | 10. Alexander Harding | 11. James Baldwin | 12. Christine Wu | 13. Warsan Shire

[psychacademia]

---- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

[formyutopia]

"Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself."

-Franz Kafka, Diaries.

[semantiques]

When Anne Carson said "I feel so lonely, like childhood again." and when Ryan O'Connell said "I don't want to have to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It's mortifying. It's mortifying to be the one who remembers." and when Gregory Orr said "Childhood dotted with bodies. Let them go, let them be ghosts. 'No,' I said, 'make them stay, make them stone.'"

[girloikawa]

yes i annotate my books & say really smart things [draws hearts and frowny faces when called for]

[girloikawa]

[girloikawa]

#younger me “books are a shrine that must be preserved” vs older me “books are a shrine that must be lived in” @amaranthie so true

[callmeyellow]

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.

[psychacademia]

Layers of fear by andrzej dybowski

tw: blood/gore

[psychacademia]

There’s something so oddly intimate in referring to secondhand books as ‘preloved’

[filmnoirsbian]

- the killing grounds

[saintacephale]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[psychacademia]

Woke up today wanting to play god but then my english professor went ahead and acknowledged my academic rival’s poetry analysis instead of mine.

[myownprivatcidaho]

whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)

[keychainjar]

[gettingintoknives]

mirror traps by hera lindsay bird

[psychacademia]

Here’s a lil playlist for that ravishing feeling you get when you just outsmarted your classmate:

[noshadeintheshadowofthecross]

notes on self destruction

[noshadeintheshadowofthecross]

additions (remastered)

[minuty]

“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”

— Haruki Murakami