Virginia Woolf, The Waves

safe house rules

—Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

and tonight I'll ache with undefined longing for no reason at all

“Anton P. Chekhov - Ein Lebe” 1981

There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself ; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

This is the best time for you to invest in something new, pls read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller !

Does anyone ever just stop and realize - DAMN what a time we live in.

It's 2020 and we just launched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into space with humans on it, landed the main rocket back on Earth successfullyy, on an OCEAN barge!?

And meanwhile you see the crew room where an entire team of people is wearing face masks and social distancing as they do their job.

What. A. Time.

1. Greek god: Zeus. | 2-3. Neptune by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700-1759).

michaelmas term at oxford university, 2018

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes