#boom quote

[knight-thyme]

"Give yourself time. You're a new kind of being. There's never been anyone like you before. But there's no flaw in you. You just need time to find out more about yourself."

-Imago by Octavia E. Butler

[ashvees]

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

My vagina has been closed so long I’m afraid a Spirit Halloween is going to move in.

~ Bri, ‘Part of Your World’ by Abby Jimenez

[dailytudors]

The Education of Isabel I of Castile & Fernando II of Aragon's Daughters

"The girls received an education similar to that of the boys of the court, but they were also trained in the domestic arts, as though they were being groomed not just to be consorts to kings but to be practical and dutiful wives as well. They learned to sew, weave, embroider, and bake. Catherine famously sewed her husband’s shirts in marriage, as her mother had in hers. The royal daughters were urged to emulate their mother, who was developing a larger-than-life persona, and to similarly see themselves as warriors for Christianity. One militant melody from a cancionero, or book of songs, for example, urged Princess Juana to “follow the shining great Queen of Castile who is the fountain of virtues” and to go forward to “carry the cross” in conquest. The royal children were raised with acute awareness of their future stations and duties. In addition to receiving the general education offered to all the court’s children, the prince and princesses were also instructed in court ritual and the arts of self-presentation. They were expected to make a decorous, dignified, and impressive appearance. Specific rules were attached to their clothing, to keep them in bandbox perfection."

~ Kirstin Downey, Isabella The Warrior Queen.

[booksneedcaffeinetoo]

“Go ahead. Deny me the chance to be a hero,” I said.

She mumbled, “You don’t need me for that.”

Trick by Natalia Jaster

[bookhubby]

[sunflowermp4]

Everything-the moon, the fireworks, the fields-had an otherworldly beauty, and I shivered, greedy for these bits of loveliness the universe was throwing our way tonight.

I'll Meet You There, Heather Demetrios

[bookoteca-blog]

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

An abundance of Katherines - John Green