without guilt

I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do. [insp; x, x]

Anne Sexton, “Is It True?” The Awful Rowing Toward God  (via feestje)

The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.

peter brown / huguette clark

Bertel Thorvaldsen’s sketches for his statue ‘Eros and Psyche’.

photographed by Julia Palacheva for Rebel Magazine

… THE HEART OF KETTERDAM.

a darker shade of magic. playlist inspired by the shades of magic series by v.e. schwab. 

You drool when you sleep.

meanwhile - richard siken // dracula - bram stoker

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

She would r i s e.

“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.”

@fandomaestheticnet​ pride month event » Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it should be this big awkward thing whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I’m just saying. Anyway, I don’t know if any of this is helping. I guess I’m a little off my game (kind of a weird day for me, too). But just know I’m sorry this is hitting you out of nowhere. And I’m thinking about you. Love, Jacques

mary shelley, frankenstein

zachary starts to laugh and dorian leans in and takes the laugh from his lips with his own and there is nothing left between them now: no distance, no words, not even fate or time to complicate matters. this is where we leave them, in a long-awaited kiss upon the starless sea, tangled in salvation and desire and obsolete cartography.