the owl’s library.

❤️book recs/finds // bookmarks/quotes❤️ 🎪[without words, i would be a prisoner]🎪 📮romance, sci-fi, fantasy, poetry, non-fic📮

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Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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Johanna Spyri, Heidi

[annakarenina]

Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs in sequential order to create a motion picture was a two-second clip of a Black man on a horse? Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Look it up.

NOPE • 2022, dir. Jordan Peele

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Edith Södergran, from "Violet Twilights" in Love & Solitude: Poems 1916-1923

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim" in Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

[lifeinpoetry]

If I could do girlhood again, I’d ask

to be scarier. Less whimpering—more pyromaniac

urges, more flirting with kerosene.

— Sally Wen Mao, from “Drop-kick Aria,” Mad Honey Symposium

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D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

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Sylvia Plath, from from "Stone Boy with Dolphin" in Johnny Panic & The Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

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Sylvia Plath, from "Initiation" in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

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Velimir Khlebnikov, from "Lyrics" in The Collected Works

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Selected Letters

[winterimsommer]

“Botany knows how to die beautifully without ever truly dying. Botany still knows a little more about death.” - Georgi Gospodinov

[stalgivc]

[mournfulroses]

Yosano Akiko, from a poem featured in River of Stars: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko