Spring and All

English literature study diary / INFP / poetry et al. / I recognized that clay and that colour of wheat

[disc80s]

yejinmoon__

[viennabybillyjoel-deactivated20]

i miss her so fucking much (independent reading time)

[mikarchive-deactivated20250714]

[studyriss]

December 20th:

finished my last essay. tomorrow is for masters applications and job hunting—today is for didion in bed

[primulaceas]

Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana c. January 1950 (translated by Velma García-Gorena)

[lovingofficial]

Fck it. What’s your moon sign and an album you could listen to beginning to end with no skips?

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“So he lent her books. After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I’ve drunk.”

— William T. Vollmann, from Europe Central (Viking, 2005)(via quotespile)

[thismomentforever]

love is buying someone a book and writing a note to them on the first page

[thismomentforever]

the amount of people who reblogged this saying “don’t write in books!!! grrr!!!! stupid person writing in books!!!” you guys are truly something else 😭 where’s that post that’s like i will eat every page after i’ve read it..... cos i feel that every time i look in the notes .... please grow tf up

[scandireader]

The books I ordered from an antiquariat in Sweden finally arrived today! I'm planning to use at least a few of these for my PhD proposal. I'm beyond excited and can't wait to read them.

[muslimah-in-academia]

Concept: I sleep 8 hours per day and still get all my tasks done, my citations are all in order, I travel to new locations twice a year and I never having pending laundry.

[the-quasar-hero]

Local white man in your class has selflessly volunteered to be devils advocate in an argument no one was having

[filmbook21]

[luvrie-deactivated20210224]

Little Women, 2019.

[pethalistm]

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

Instagram: pethalistm

[michonnegrimes]

No one gets ink stains like yours just out of a desire for money.          LITTLE WOMEN (2019) DIR. GRETA GERWIG

[studyriss]

November 18th: carnations replace the dead tulips, latest oat milk carton comes to an untimely end, exams loom imminent, and I read Kate Chopin in bed

[katrienstudies]

My desk today

[glowpop]

women write men with so much nuance and care and more dimension than most men in real life will ever have and men write women like they’ve never spoken to a woman in their entire life 

[funnysnake2019]

easy on the misandry, shawty.

[glowpop]

what on god’s green earth did you just say to me