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- Roald Dahl

Gateway to Nowhere

Feeling Witchy

The time has come to gather nature, bring it inside to warm our bones. Collect wood, pinecones, lichen; thank the universe for providing us with all that we truly need to survive. Light your fires and banish your worries. A time for rest, a moment to revitalize our souls and feed our minds with knowledge.

i want to be mysterious but like in a cute way. i want people to know i’m kind and gentle, but at the same time i want to wear a long black coat and want people to look at me and whisper to each other “nobody knows anything about this woman. she lives alone and doesn’t talk much. stay away from her” but then mothers would bring their sick children to me so i could heal them with my mysterious cryptic healing powers because i am the witch of the town.

I am a quiet seeker.

let it be so.

the autumnal urge to run away in the cold season somewhere in a small enchanted village where no one knows you, with forests and small streams and bridges and wooden huts and open fires surrounded by nature and old buildings, cobblestones and mysterious antique shops, cosy little cafés and an ancient library

crossing fog somewhere in Switzerland

i think i love it here. ).

Warm September morning

where i should belong:

Quiet by Stepan Ohiy, 1950s

i’ve been at that exact place about 7 months ago.

The Dnieper. Autumn by Yevhenia Ovsiannykova, 1948

i love the mountains.

via

yes.

One of the worst feelings has to be when you finish an amazing book and have no one to talk to about it

haha same

i would also add “the images in my head which accompany the flow of music from my earphones”.

my personality is like 92% the last book I read

adorable.

misty weather. x

why do i feel so good about it? >•<

brings my august back.

“If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?”

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“It is better to be yourself and have no friends than to be like your friends and have no self.”

— Unknown

EXACTLY.

I read. Obsessively. Because, when I read, there is purpose to my loneliness.

September Affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid) by Keaton St. James

imagine being the first ancient person to realize that the ocean and their tears taste the same. imagine realizing that your sorrow and the waves share a taste. i wouldve gone crazy

grin. ).

The great Dorothy Parker born on this day in 1893:

"If you have young friends who aspire to be writers, the second greatest favor you can do to them is present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them while they are still happy."

I'm NOT going to say this again

Classic Texts are those that are considered part of the literary canon. Some examples are Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby or To Kill a Mockingbird.

Classical Texts are texts that originate in classical times from Greece and Rome. Some examples are the Iliad and Odyssey, Antigone, and Plato's and Sophocles's works.

Please, for the love of god, get it right

oh, i’m thrilled by the opportunity to start my school year, feeling originally excited about studying itself. i want to learn this time. at last.

one thing that really strikes me about anti-intellectualism is that it's just so. self-limiting and sad. like it's a good thing to learn and i feel like we've forgotten it. all this information at our fingertips and people are refusing to use it for the simplest things like when they don't understand one specific word in a text. if something is a tough read it's a moral failing of the author and not an opportunity to build on your own personal knowledge and experiences. it doesn't matter if you think picasso is a renaissance artist because who cares about art history anyway and besides, picasso was a creep, even though it would take a minute to look this up. like obviously there are issues with accessibility in say, access to academia, but some things are genuinely not going to take significant amounts of effort to look up and remember for future. yes it's not a bad thing to not know something already, but a refusal to learn? come on. learning - expanding your knowledge, getting to know more about the world or humanity or art or science or anything - serves you, not some elitist academic in the sky or whatever. whether that's just reading the first paragraph of the wikipedia page for pragmatism or taking three months to read crime and punishment, there's a sense of achievement in the end. and yeah to some extent it's a skill, but it's not a difficult thing to foster and build upon, and sitting around proclaiming how you refuse to learn anything, even the most basic and simple fun facts, due to whatever the excuse of the month is is just so insular. it's a truly wonderful and interesting and diverse world out there and we're letting it all pass us by

"my darling, you will never be unloved by me you are too well tangled in my soul"

— Atticus

this.

i hate you booktok i hate you overly organised bookshelves i hate you hard cover supremacists i hate you reading challenges i hate you colleen hoover i hate you people who can only seem to read ya or romance i hate you same style of cover in every modern book i hate you rupi kaur i hate you plain boring prose i hate you buying books just for the "aesthetic" i love you pretentiousness i love you being a snob

What advice would you give to young or beginning writers?

Read everything. Read the stuff you like and read the stuff you don't think you'll like. Read the things that people think it's good for you to read and read the things they seem worried about you reading. Read prose and poetry and fiction and non-fiction. Get off your phone and read books without interruption. Read the classics and read the cutting edge. Read everything you can get your hands on.

– @neil-gaiman

too exhausted to explain my soul to someone again just for them to puncture it all over again.

nocturne, excerpts from my journal