Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

physically at home, but mentally in an academy that smells of wood and old books, at the head of a secret society.

“you’re so pretty,” okay write poetry about me then.

“you’re pretty” yes but am i hauntingly beautiful? if dracula saw me in the streets of romania, would he be so mesmerized by my beauty; that he would start writing a bunch of poems about how much he craves my body and my blood?

-Bloodfangs on tw

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”

– Mahmoud Darwish

Understand that your friends don’t wanna talk every day. Understand that your love partner doesn’t wanna be lovely or super indulgent every day. Lots of people need rest from performative emotions. All people need rest in general. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you.

- কমলাকান্তের দপ্তর

When Evelyn Waugh wrote "sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all" and I felt that in my bones.

drink your coffee. read your books. it's chaos out there.

spending your christmas with remus lupin

because it's three days till christmas and I haven't done a christmas-y theme, here's a moodboard instead 🥰

ATYD ; remus lupin moodboard