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betsy-the-eclectic-reader · 1 year

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You know the key to impulsivity is believing you are invincible. No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.

– Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

#taylor jenkins reid #seven husbands of evelyn hugo #best seller books #quoteoftheday #booklr #quoteblr #readers on tumblr #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #literary quotes #spilled ink #spilled quotes #quotes from literature

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lucidloving · 2 months

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David Foster Wallace // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Albert Camus, A Happy Death // Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland // Brené Brown, Dancing Greatly // @danielcalmdown // Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love and Leaps of Faith // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Sleeping At Last—Neptune

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dreamy-conceit · 8 months

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In Rome there was a banker called Agostino Chigi. In Siena, where he came from, they maintained he was the richest man in the world. When Agostino had the Pope around for dinner he fed him on gold plates. Then he looked at the aftermath – the sprawled, sated cardinals, the mess they left behind, the half-picked bones and fish skeletons, the oyster shells and the orange rinds – and he said, stuff it, let's save the washing-up.

The guests tossed their plates out of the open windows and straight into the Tiber. The soiled table linen flew after them, white napkins unfurling like greedy gulls diving for scraps. Peals of Roman laughter unfurled into the Roman night.

Chigi had netted the banks, and he had divers standing by for whatever escaped. Some sharp-eyed servant of his upper household stood by the bank when dawn came, and checked off the list, pricking with a pin each item retrieved as it came up from the deep.

— Hilary Mantel, 'Wolf Hall'

#historical fiction #medieval england #medieval europe #henry viii #tudor period #tudor history #tudor era #thomas cromwell #quotes from literature #english literature #english history

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lone-nyctophile · 5 months

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vodkatales · 2 years

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For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

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ivynightshade · 21 days

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i mother it, the absence of her ii. i was hard to bear from the very start.’

[text id: my sadness is a fire that i built to keep my hands warm on lonely nights. // art by sivan roshianu // i keep my misery bared between my teeth. i refuse to let her leave. / i am nothing without this obsession of mine.]

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talkingtotheclouds · 1 year

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#lord of the rings #two towers #jrr tolkien #tolkien #book quotes #great quotes #quotes from literature

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sfsolstice · 26 days

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Albert Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus

#literature #lit #typography #quotes #dark academia #light academia #fragments #aesthetic #albert camus #the myth of sisyphus #oops typo!#240401 #taking a break from a literate passion

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cowboylikesubai · 4 months

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unknown / ranata suzuki / unknown / i miss you, im sorry by gracie abrams / @/hagims on twitter / mary oliver / louise gluck / @/gaphic / unknown

"forgive me...memory is a rope round my neck"

#the absolute satisfaction i have from knowing i dont feel this way anymore #web weaving #web weave #dark academia #on love #on unrequited love #on remembering #<3 #quotes #literature #gracie abrams #writers and poets #grief #words #art #movie screenshots #heartbreak #on heartbreak #taylor swift

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"I'm not doing awfully well but I'm trying very, very, very hard."

– Anne Sexton, from a letter to Florence Ehrhardt, c. February 1974

#I'm literally so tired from everything #dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #dark academia aesthetic #literature quotes #book quotes #life quotes #quotations #books & libraries #classic literature #anne sexton #books and literature #literary quotes #on life #on death #words

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betsy-the-eclectic-reader · 2 years

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He loves the isolation, the solitude, the "invisibility" of quiet; the understanding that no one will speak to him, and that he need not speak to anyone.

– Joyce Carol Oates, The Quiet Car

#spilled quotes #literary quotes #joyce carol oates #quoteoftheday #poets on tumblr #readers on tumblr #writers on tumblr #think about it #quoteblr #silence #quotes from literature #literary fiction #booklr

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lucidloving · 5 months

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All writing by me: @lucidloving

"Prayer for Mercy" // "Letter XVIII" // "For Another Day" // "Letter IV" // "This Could Outlast it All" // "Letter XII" // "Letter in My Drawer" // "Dimples"