I'm here to procrastinate

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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.

“It is romantic, yes,” agreed Hercule Poirot. “It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun.”

- Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang (2022)

“As with all your other clients, you were going to fool my broken heart with all your grand trickery, weren’t you? Seduce my bereaved soul, while secretly thrilled at the dreadful splendor of it all.”

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— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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and all about the world is gold and green, dripping with laburnum and buttercups and the sweet stench of june. —sylvia plath.

Peonies in vase (detail), Cécile Augustine Bougourd (French, 1857-1941)

'cause it was never mine

LOVE AND OTHER WORDS by Christina Lauren ★★★★★

“Could it be that Noah was one of those rare guys who didn’t essentially dislike or mock women, and who also didn’t ignore our existence, and who also didn’t see us primarily as objects of lust? That he was weirdly, disarmingly fine with us?”

HAPPY PLACE by Emily Henry

“I had absolutely no interest in being someone else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.“