#academia quotes

[luciferslilith7]

"You return like Autumn, and I fall everytime."

Faraway

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[akaessi]

hills through train windows

[the-local-puppy]

I love the secret history because of how chaotic it is. Like Henry how did you not know about the moon landing? The fact that after being shot Richard thought 'shit that shirt was expensive'. Charles sleeping in a giant snail. Francis and his parking tickets.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"she might have been some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of light."

~ Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (1913)

[ethereal-muses]

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

– Gustave Flaubert

[academic-vampire]

[chillpotato]

- Mary Oliver

[greeksblog]

I open my fingers-

I let everything go.

[joytri]

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"

Sarah Williams

[luciferslilith7]

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Virginia Woolf

Selected Letters

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[edwardian-masquerade]

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[the-local-puppy]

More chaotic stuff from the secret history I love: the naked barbie doll hanging from Judie Poovey's door, cocaine in the burger king parking lot, how terrible Camilla is at ironing, Charles and Francis fucking at Bunny's funeral

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Saturday, November 15th, 1919

"& so here I am, sitting after Saturday tea, a large warm meal, full of currants & sugar & hot tea cake, after a long cold walk."

~ Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 1 (1915-1919), ed. Anne Olivier Bell

[ethereal-muses]

We have art in order not to die from the truth.

– Friedrich Nietzsche