Do You Ever Think About How Many Of The Items Now Considered Priceless Artifacts Were Once Commonplace

Reading with breakfast

“An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us. It isn’t that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you. It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us. The possibility of life between us.”

— Adrienne Rich, from On Lies, Secrets & Silence (via violentwavesofemotion)

There’s a very particular eeriness that befalls ruins during the golden hour. I’m living for it.

Persepolis, Iran // August 2018

for @desi-dark-academia​ 

desi dark academia set in south india

"girlhood was as ephemeral as a drop of water on a lily pad." // chitra banerjee divakaruni, the forest of enchantments

january fourth: appreciating the warm morning glow of my apartment before reviewing family law for the bar exam.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter

What a powerful closing statement

bipoc in (modern) dark academia 1/?: black girls

models/sources: [row 1] chanel mckinsie, subanbrn, unknown, [row 2] moonymaps, chocodamix, karly loyce, [row 3] donniedarkage, anok yai, unknown

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