Tavazzo ki ummeed us mah-jabeen se
Tālluq hai kya aasmaan ko zameen se
Expecting attention from moon faced one / What relationship does the sky keeps with the ground
“Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
— Unknown (via childmagazine)
“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
literature posters; the book thief by markus zusak
survived checking my bank account. i deserve a little treat
-William Shakespeare, Sonnet-23
Petition to stop calling it ' Aesthetic ' and start calling it ' the morbid longing for picturesque '
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin
here's to finding someone who loves me as much as Franz Kafka loves whoever the fuck he wrote those letters for
suni nahi zamaane ne teri meri kahaaniyaan, karde koyi nawaazishen karam mehrbaaniyaan ✨
-What are you?-To define is to limit. They call me voltage. Because I've got a lot of potential, but I'm mostly negative.
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