#To the Lighthouse

[petaltexturedskies]

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself—oh, yes!—in every other way.

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

[amicus-noctis]

“I am out with lanterns looking for myself” - Emily Dickinson

Painting: "Walk With Lanterns" 1879 by Ilja Repin

[metamorphesque]

— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse [originally published 1927]

[bookmania]

What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[whilereadingandwalking]

“She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach…and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!”—Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[cruelempire]

“they looked at each other down the long table sending those questions and answers across, each knowing exactly how the other felt”

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

[vysogotaofcorvo]

Imagine that you and I shared a personal language, one that only we two could interpret.

Perhaps we do.

Communication (wikipedia) / The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin / Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky / Ineffability (wikipedia) / Emma by Jane Austen / Solaris by Stanislaw Lem / Making Amends - panel 2 by Holly Warburton / To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf / Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

[existentialblake]

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the universe.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

[amicus-noctis]

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn” ― Arthur Rimbaud

Painting: Sketch for "Summer Dreams" Henry Scott Tuke & "The Slave Ship" by J.M.W. Turner

[metamorphesque]

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[withlove-esme]

Everyday is a good day to wander about mum (virginia woolf)

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse

[liliesbythewater]

on icarus

The Secret History, Donna Tartt | "Goodbye", Bo Burnham | To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf | The Lament for Icarus, Herbert James Draper | "Pearl Diver", Mitski | "Climbing", Lucille Clifton (via @llovelymoonn) | The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath | detail from Through Cataclysm, Andreas Birath | In the Dreamhouse, Carmen Maria Machado | "Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart", Mitski | "A Burning Hill", Mitski