“Bysshe Looked, As He Always Looked, Wild, Intellectual, Unearthly; Like A Spirit That Had Just Descended

She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.

Donna Tartt,The Secret History (1992).

Reading Times, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1926

If you mourn the death of ancient languages but do not mourn the death of innocent black people, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

If the burning of the library of Alexandria or of Notre Dame brings you to tears but do not care about the fires started by desperate and grieving protesters demanding justice, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

It is okay to love and be passionate about things from the past, but we must also care about our present. 2020 will someday be history too. Don’t let yourself be on the wrong side of history. Don’t ignore the racial injustice that is all around us.

The fall of the house of usher (Edgar Allen Poe)

This is for sure my favourite quote from my favourite Poe story, it always sends shivers down my spine.

Made by me <3

Basically one of my favourite monologues in theatre. So sad, poor Moritz :(

“How often do I lull my rebellious blood to rest, for you cannot imagine anything so erratic, so restless as my heart.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (via theclassicsreader)

Goethe has said, that in youth we cannot be happy unless we love. I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others.

Mary Shelley, from The Last Man. (via weepforadonais)

mum

hey so um your boyfriend, he bought a pack of cigarettes and mrs. wagner’s pies? and, i’m sorry, he, uh, walked off to look for america. yeah he’s boarding a greyhound in pittsburgh by now. sorry

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anerican choese

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.