atti ☽ | xvi

she/her a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for.

[sadlyhiraeth]

My eyes ache with the weight of unshed tears. You are my home, do you not understand?

Amy Lowell, from The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell; The Fruit Garden Path.

[ghostbri]

angel. angel. and he was so afraid.

[sadlyhiraeth]

“He could never use you.

“You own him.

You should’ve seen the way he was looking at you while you were out.”

I smiled a little. “How?”

“Like you’re the ocean and he’s desperate to drown.”

[levourdalak]

Pride & Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright “Dreaming” (1928), by Maxfield Parrish

[sadlyhiraeth]

Our love is rare.

It’s one I can’t abandon even if I tried.

When she screams, an identical one rips through me.

When she cries, my world rains with grief.

When she loves,

I truly, truly fly.

[soracities]

“I do not want to be alone like this. Why have you not come back to haunt me? It is the least I would have expected of you. Why this silence day after day, night after interminable night? It is like a fog, this silence of yours. First it was a blur on the horizon, the next minute we were in the midst of it, purblind and stumbling, clinging to each other…Send back your ghost. Torment me, if you like. Rattle your chains, drag your cerements across the floor, keen like a banshee, anything. I would have a ghost.”

— John Banville, The Sea

[weltonboys]

intangible - madisen kuhn

[aseaofquotes]

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

I have never seen a soul as hardened as yours.

Albert Camus, The Outsider

[chooseacutename]

“I miss him, and the pain of it is a yawning chasm, one into which I yearn to let myself fall.”

Jude Duarte, The Queen of Nothing

[autumnsnowflakesworld]

{“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”}

Getting back into the folk of the air series since I just finished the wicked king. I just had to draw that kiss.

please no spoilers for The Queen of Nothing!!

[chooseacutename]

“I missed you,"

I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me.

"In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you."

“My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”

THIS MOMENT THIS GODDAMN MOMENT

[brokendowmess]

Queen of nothing. Holly Black

[brokendowmess]

Queen of nothing. Holly Black

[weltenwellen]

Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

[croathia]

Caravaggio, details of Bacchus.

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

cardan whenever jude gets too quiet:

[cardanjudes]

!!!!!!