Afternoon

Classic Book Recommendations For Each Hogwarts House

Gryffindor

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Beowulf

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Histories by Herodatus

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hufflepuff

East of Eden by John Stenbeck

Othello by William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

White Fang by Jack London

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ravenclaw

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Slytherin

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Spilled ink

Her dark hair is falling over her naked shoulder and nape.

Spilling all over the white linen sheets like a writers mistake.

This world is a cruel play,

the characters cannot justify their actions

and we are caught up in this spectacle

Source 

"You search for home"

You search for home in the smell between pages,

You search for home in warm sheets of your bed,

You search for home in the warm cup of coffee,

You search for home in the light that peeks in your window.

You search for home.....

You feel at home in the chatter of your friends

You feel at home at the dinner table with your family

You feel at home in the arms of your lover

You feel at home with yourself one afternoon

You become your home.

Suddenly I thought of you today, just a simple passing thought of You. That's all

Talented. Refined. Iconic.

Wrinkles

Every fold on her skin tells a story,

Every crevice and every scar tells a story of love and the sacrifice she made for that love.

A woman's love is deep, deeper than the ocean. She steps away from some of the things she want. She puts her family's need before her own.

When you look closer to her body which now looks a little shorter due to the weight of responsibility on her shoulders.

She is now at peace with the decisions she has made over the decades and continues to make.

She is now truly in better place with herself. Every new wrinkle that forms on her body leads to weariness but her eyes still hold that spark which never dims.

She welcomes new people into her life and cares for them.

Now that age has caught up with her and she is now a little slower than rest of the world.

She now forgets little things and slowly dims down. She loses a part of her strength everyday.

But let us never forget to go along with her side by side.. With the a little slower speed than the rest of the world.

Let us now spend some time with this wonder woman of our family.

Let us try to unravel those mysteries behind her every wrinkle.

Peaceful mornings in Thailand

By @florisgone

“You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

— Neil Gaiman