history & books

ana, 24 years and from brazil

[wedarkacademia]

I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.

But I was little too.

— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father

[ancientsstudies]

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

[quotespile]

“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

[userscully]

BEFORE SUNSET 2004 | dir. Richard Linklater

[old-school-romantics]

[vol-d-oiseaux]

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”

— Vladimir Nabokov (via yominokuni)

[nymphpens]

"fuck you my child is completely fine"

your child reads classic literature for fun

[bnmxfld]

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ve had today.”

— David Nicholls / One Day

[wedarkacademia]

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

[deviika]

Sylvia Plath

[theotreptos]

[metamorphesque]

My brilliant friend, Elena Ferrante

[metamorphesque]

― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

[text ID: There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.]

[metamorphesque]

― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

[text ID: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]

[brokendowmess]

A little life. Hanya Yanagihara

[willwriteforhugs]

"i would know him in death, at the end of the world."

the song of achilles by madeline miller, 2011

[brokendowmess]

A little life. Hanya Yanagihara