nine hundred names

[and then, to lie close, and let a lover’s dreams caress your skin as you begin to sink once more beneath the wakes of consciousness, blissful in the knowledge that dawn is far off—that’s second sleep.]

[volcrania]

[master-painters]

Cecilia Beaux - Ernesta Drinker - 1905

[suonko]

Grey- Wolf by Claire Harkess

[catherinepapeillustration]

[chacoco]

[english-idylls]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843).

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[wasbella102]

December by Theodor Kittelsen.

wineofwizardry:

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Voula Th. Papaioannou  :: The armchair where Kostis Palamas used to sit. Athens, 1943 

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[byaseashore]

[aseaofquotes]

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[omgthatdress]

18th century cape via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[beautiful-scotland]

Ring of Brodgar » by rzeki_brzeg

[ghoskt]

Inktober 17

[italianoutlanders]

[byaseashore]

[paintingses]

The Crescent Moon (detail) by Montague Dawson (1895-1973)

oil on canvas, date unknown (early 20th century maybe?)

[heythereney]