I have faith in nights

You darkness that I come from, out of which all things come, I love you more that all the fires that fence the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you, But the darkness pulls in everything, shapes and fires, animals and myself. How easily it gathers them, powers and people. It is possible a great energy is moving near us. I have faith in the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke

i’m tired of historical dramas trying to spice things up with sex scenes instead of giving the audience what they really want which is excessively long scenes of noble women being dressed in sumptuous and period accurate layers by their attendants with gratuitous shots of the era-appropriate fastenings and lacings being done

“You stand red-handed. You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grass What are you supposed to do with all this loss?”

— Margaret Atwood, from “Down”, Morning in the Burned House (via medeae)

Penitent Mary Magdalen (1665) by Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)

The Artist's Studio, with Selfportrait (details) by Hugo Birger (Swedish, 1854-1887)

The different faces of roe deer! I love comparing multiple skulls of the same species. Each skull has its own characteristics that make it unique

L’Odalisque, Adolphe Weisz, 1884

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”

— Michael Ondaatje (via quotemadness)

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— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror.”

— Georges Bataille

I used to cry to this song daily

Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Roslyn

The Fallen

Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera, detail - c.1478-82

“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love.”

— Buddha   (via goodreadss)

me: *chillin*

my brain: SELF HARM BINGE EAT TAKE ALL YOUR PILLS PUNCH A HOLE THROUGH A WALL DRINK AN ENTIRE BOTTLE OF VODKA PULL OUT ALL YOUR HAIR SCREAM FOR NO REASON JUMP IN FRONT OF A CAR CUT OFF ALL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ROB A BANK

me: *no longer chillin*