“These violent delights have violents ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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“Let be not a tragedy worse than that of mine own nature/For woe shall thy heart beat only for thine affection/Oh cursed beauty thou art the artist of my pain/Love lives not in thy body but in mine soul for shall I devote my every breath to thee”
- Billy Joel, Vienna
In honor of school starting back up for many of you, a gentle reminder that it is okay to be scared and anxious, just slow down and know you’re going to be alright
- edgar allan poe
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
- Jane Austen
“I crave intimacy but I don’t want temporary people touching my mind, body, or soul.”
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“If I am the Phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so.”
- Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
“i will live a hundred lifetimes if it means that in one of them i can sit beside you and- even if just for a moment- know that you are mine.”
“then let this be the hundredth one and no more- for there is no life of mine where you are not beside me.”
when the Donna Tartt; dark sweaters and short skirts; lace tights and mary jane’s; ink stained fingertips and scribbled notes in the margins; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and M.L. Rio’s If We Were Villians; writing in a spiraled notebook; lectures on Rome and Religion; starts to resurface in your psyche
everyday my mind spirals more and more with my passion for greek mythology, ancient history, and literature <3