I am a book covered with blackness, scars and mysteries. I just hope for people to judge me by my cover. I just don’t want them to read into me and see the fragile heart I am.
Bshayer F.R. (via wnq-writers)
“Its a hard world to be different in.”
dead poets society (1989, written by tom schulman)
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚞, 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟸)
Not yet corpses.
Still, we rot.
a study of the moon
When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” - Clarice Lispector