When I Say I'm OBSESSED..✨️☀️🌙

What a beautiful book. The afterword of made me cry after a long emotional journey of small glimpses of his life:

"...the coffin had been covered with yellow flowers, 'his favorite color [...] a symbol of the light of which he dreamed both in his heart and in his work.'"

— Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

"Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done” ―Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"Close your eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated by metamorphesque)

Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”, Hagar Poems

Morning Star (Lucifer) // by Paul Fryer at Holy Trinity Church

"i would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

hellen keller

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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