#literary quote

[reverie-quotes]

Desire is no light thing.

— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

[anliafail]

Folio Society's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen | Illustrated by Anna and Elena Balbusso | Introduced by Sebastian Faulks

[the-dose-makes-the-poison]

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.

—T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

[loriyou]

Don't force yourself to laugh if you feel like crying.

- Jung Hae In

💌💖🦋

[the-soft-scholar]

i think this is what growing up feels like. finding steadiness without losing softness. holding my ground yet still allowing myself to change in tender and impossible ways. i want to live like this grounded, quiet, and always in motion.

[joytri]

"She doesn't speak too much but she leads the most intelligent conversations. She is a thinker. She has her coffee and books and music. She has her style. There's something so deep in her eyes. That's why everybody stares at her. She has a beautiful soul. She has a power and she is not afraid to be different. She is the art."

[previouslysad]

Zadie Smith, “What Lodged in Her Mind” from Dead and Alive: Essays

[authenticity2025]

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. Albert Camus