" You Are Killing Me, And You Are Keeping Me From Dying, That Is Love."

I would rather die of passion than boredom

— Van Gough

"the skeleton flower is a white flower that turns translucent when it rains"

Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”, Hagar Poems

one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.

My aesthetic is like dark academia but the medieval Iranian / Islamic golden age version

stop putting anyone or anything up on a pedestal (2021)

Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall || Anna Akhmatova || V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic [Shades of Magic #1] || Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot || Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans."

Sherwood Smith