every day i wonder why i'm not living in a dark castle with secret passageways and rooms filled with books
“burn it all.”
06.12.19 Manchester
“There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.” - Dead Poets Society
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
- A Midsummer Nights Dream, Williams Shakespeare
personal moodboard for @partialto
“In your eyes you dearly hold all of night’s allure / Oh you, Joy at the end of my solitude! / Your kisses as sweet as the sweetest fruits / And your voice lulling me like a dreamy prelude / Softly sung by the sea for night’s beauty in bloom.” — Renée Vivien
She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
the gallery of great battles; versailles, paris
“Quiet, yet wild. Rough, and yet gentle,”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”
“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan