the world is quiet here;

The Borgias | The Siege at Forli

Vintage sacred heart french votive lamp

Eva Gonzalès  (French, 1849–1883)

𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢

Franz Kafka, 1912

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

Nothing was fair.

Emma, Volume III, Chapter VI

SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES — reimagined penguin classics.

Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre

also just wanna emphasize the same can be said re: heathcliff except wrt racism and class, and that heathcliff’s later, unforgivable offenses are supposed to be unforgivable. the more violent and capitalistic and like his own oppressors heathcliff becomes, the further he is from the paradise of his youth and from catherine and cannot return to those things until he recognizes the shittiness of his actions

Vintage outdoor bookshop spotted in Madrid, Spain.

Photographs by Ferdinando Scianna

— Vincent Van Gogh