Restless Academic

"That fire which refines us" 21 ♒ Just sharing my thoughts

[restlessacademicsstuff]

Sorry, woke up and realised that watching the news while being an international law student is utterly draining

[restlessacademicsstuff]

Maybe we should stop focusing on the aesthetic part of Greece and start wondering what can chase so many people out of it. Finding beauty in everything is a blessing, but turning a blind eye to injustice, authoritarianism, and a government that is beginning to look more and more like a mafia cannot be condoned

[restlessacademicsstuff]

What the hell is happening to the world right now

[deadpoet-skull]

from The New York Times

[restlessacademicsstuff]

Couldn't describe it better

[restlessacademicsstuff]

At this point we're all grieving Henry like the husband we never had, aren't we

[mournfulroses]

Hala Alyan, from The Moon That Turns You Back; "Spoiler," published in 2024

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Michelle Williams

[illlyhhh-deactivated20241118]

[girl-on-films]

she peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. if i could wear it like a friendship bracelet, i would. instead i swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. to chew and to swallow in silence with her. to taste the same thing in the same moment.

-nina lacour

[edwardian-masquerade]

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

-E.A. Bucchianeri, "Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"

[mahoganyamore]

how do i feel a heartbeat with a handshake?

[restlessacademicsstuff]

It's raining, part of my soul is healed

[edwardian-masquerade]

"No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren."

-Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde, Part I, Act I, Scene 5, 1834.

[shakespearesdaughters]

“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.” — Mahmoud Darwish

[lilith-c-deactivated20240828]

[gavas-world]

I take my whiskey neat

My coffee black and my bed at three

You're too sweet for me

[academic-vampire]

𝔡𝔬 ℑ 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔯 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫?