The Faintest Scent Of A Cactus Flower

To Beatrice— // Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

Darshana S, Atlas still stands but does anyone else? (via echymosis)

She once told me that as a child, she would lock herself in her closet after she fought with her mother. She’d grab an old fur coat and scream, muffling the noises in the clothes. She made sure to have her mental breakdowns in private. Even in her madness, there’s still a level of control.

tarot is a very personal thing, and as such, the art on each deck reflected the woman who owned it. maura’s was all dark lines and simple colors, at once perfunctory and childlike. calla’s was lush and oversaturated, the cards overflowing with detail. every card in orla’s deck featured a couple kissing or making love, whether or not the card’s meaning was about kissing or making love. gwenllian had fashioned her own by scratching dark, frantic symbols on a deck of ordinary playing cards. jimi stuck by the sacred cats and holy women deck that she’d found in a thrift store in 1992.

The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater

Blue’s arm was linked around the back of Noah, and her fingers grabbed Adam’s T-shirt so that they were one creature, a drunken six-legged animal.

From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908).

“I don’t want sunbursts or marble halls. I just want ·y o u ”

awesome passage from Harry Potter you probably didn’t pay enough attention to (via harrypotterconfessions)

Courtesy of Rare Book Collection, Detroit Public Library

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” (via didoofcarthage)

https://archive.org/details/daywithpoettenny00tennuoft

Tennyson, excerpt of The Lady of Shallott (via medeae)

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