With Her Head in a Book

twenty-three. los angeles. english major & literary geek. hiker & snowboarder. green thumbed gardener. my dog is basically my girlfriend.

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

people be shitting on French spelling like English is any better

[inkskinned]

Me: oh oops I almost drank my paint water lmao

The pretentious man writing my life: this is what drove him crazy about her, her wildness, her insanity. One moment she was peaceful, the artist in her nest - the next, she dived into chaos, dined on it, challenged it. Just when he thought he understood her, she moved to again rewrite her definition, always unknowable, always glittering like the ocean, hinting at a story yet untold, laughing at a joke not meant for him, her eyes twinkling with secrets and humor and the otherworldly feminine. She was surrounded by color, loved it so much she tried to pour it inside of her, tried to poison herself with it, tried to paint even her organs. He wanted to kiss her, to entangle that art into his own skin - but the moment was passed. She was again order, peace. The chaos ceased. He didn’t even get to touch her boobies.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Where’s the lie

[dianimations]

Coffee time

[betulvargun]

sense and sensibility

[welcometothisby]

the scorpio races quotes / classical paintings horses bathing in the sea, lucy kemp-welch

[lunarfoxes]

One of my favorite series; I still haven’t finished it though because I don’t want it to ever end. From my instagram.☽

[herwordlessness]

Little gift for a bookworm friend’s first place!

[lifeinpoetry]

                               I’m full of hunger           and whirled by visions in which      I swallow tornados          whole—some nights   I sleep with   strands of wind still      dangling from my teeth.

— Paige Lewis, from “Diorama of Want,” published in wildness

[tylerknott]

Typewriter Series #2161 by Tyler Knott Gregson

[steampunk-city-deactivated20180]

Something I recently learned about writing is that a character should never stop feeling flawed. It doesn’t matter how much (positive) development they go through, a realistic character doesn’t completely erase their flaws at the end of their story, and that’s okay! You’re never going to reach perfection, so there’s no reason for a character to stop feeling a little broken, a little evil, a little off, that doesn’t invalidate their growth, it only makes it more real.

[a-ramblinrose]

“Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via theliteraryjournals)

[fearlesswolfstudies]

My desk has been taken over by this research paper. How do you guys keep yourself disciplined during the winter break?

[delphicoracle]

this week on instagram, part ix.

[tolackcolour]

Things that taste and smell as good as pumpkin waffles have very short-lived photo ops.

[thefatlannister]

The best part about sense8 is how fucking chill Wolfgang is about having 7 voices in his head like he doesn’t even question it?? orgies? Hell yeah. Randomly showing up naked at a wedding in a foreign country? Cool. Taking over someone else’s body just to beat the shit out of some dirt bag? Sign him up. No explanations needed

[achrondite-deactivated20170123]

my problem with writing stories is that i’d rather imagine it and play it out in my mind than actually put it into words