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“don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” - C.S. Lewis

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“honestly, don’t you two read?”

— hermione granger, harry potter and the philosopher’s stone

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A windy day with a moderate temperature will make you feel like you got reborn into a world that really loves you this time

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland (1858)

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i have so many hobbies and interests but each day the four horsemen (instant gratification, shortened attention span, procrastination, exhaustion) grab me by the throat and shake me until i collapse in my comfy bed

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@academia-lucifer

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one day I’ll be in a pool of sunlight so engrossed in a book I forget my phone exists and it will fix me

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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

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theseptemberchronicles

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pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later

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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

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does anyone know what you’re supposed to do after graduating college

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Girls will be like “oh I’m just running some quick errands” and then spend all day in the wetlands appreciating the unique flora and fauna

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Medieval kittens, from a 13th century English manuscript, (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r) 

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“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via theliteraryjournals)