When Donna Tartt Said Forgive Me, For All The Things I Did But Mostly For The Ones That I Did Not, And

shout out to all the people who identify with gifted kid burnout syndrome who are probably just neurodivergent but werent diagnosed as a child, who used to devour books like it was nothing and never really understood why the protagonist would leave their cool fantasy world behind to go back home at the end of the story, and who are now extremely disappointed in reality and use escapism as their primary coping mechanism. how’s that bisexuality and deep-rooted anger at the school system going for you?

For all I can really do is

Stand here

In September’s rain

Savouring...

Soaking it all in

Slipping...

And simply

Holding on to poetry

For dear life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

- Rachel Carson

A wall of leaves, 28-08-2021

Mercury / Hermes (detail) wood engraving by Jonnard (1866) after William Blake Richmond

Dawn and Dusk / illustrations by Alphonse Mucha, 1899.

Some amazing book dedications: 

idk who needs to hear this but get your ass up and start living the life you kept saying you wanted. chase the dreams you kept on dreaming about. don’t just write it down, go execute it.

Details: The Angel appears to Hagar and Ishmael, 1640, by Gioacchino Assereto (Italian, 1600-1649)