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Cottagecore but make it dark

“for someone who doesn’t want to lose me you’re not acting like you want to keep me”

- j.b.

“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

"Death is the Mother of Beauty"

~The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

— William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Stop constantly burning the candle at both ends , or you will eventually be reduced to ashes.

Christine E. Szymanski.

once i found out what dark academia was it was over for me

I would rather die of passion than boredom

— Van Gough

“For a moment I’m twenty-two again, watching my innocence slip through my fingers with equal parts eagerness and terror.”

-M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

dark academia + caffeine addictions

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

You wake every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before and that my love is bravery.

~ unknown 

it feels weird and sad, you know? when you have shared such giggles with someone that you know everything about them, yet do not know the reason why you fell apart. you know their rainbows, their rain, their sunny days, and their cold winter but now you're stuck in the fall and it feels like autumn is never coming back. the hands that once grooved you to soft beats do not dare to make you smile anymore. and when you read those old conversations, you bury your head in a pillow and call yourself stupid, but the heart still beats. it never stops. time moves quickly slipping out of your hands when you read their words, and you keep reading. you want time to slip letters under your door by their name and you want autumn, and you want to be that stupid again because you realize stupidity is not fun unless there's a person to prove that it's not stupid to love someone.

enigma

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

― Virginia Woolf

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Dark Academia Subjects: Astronomy

“We worship perfection because we can’t have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

I am, as the poets say, a disaster.

meet me at our spot.

Dark Academia Subjects: Physics

Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility"

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Before I am your daughter, your sister, your aunt, niece, or cousin, I am my own person, and I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm.” ― Elizabeth Gracely

Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

i'll be a dreamer 'til the day I die

and they say, oh, how the good die young?

“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