Step Into My Dream Gothic Library At Strawberry Hill House In England.

dizzy

scattered

messy

mind

there's nothing more comforting than picking up an old book and immediately reemerging yourself into the story. a book that feels familiar, a book that feels like home, a book that feels like the warm embrace of an old friend. you read the first page and all of those feelings come back- the excitement, the wonder, the awe. what were you going through when you first read these words? how much have you grown? you reread the same paragraphs. you reattach yourself to the characters. you reimagine the setting and the descriptions and is it different? or is it all the same? are you different? are you the same? who do you want to be?

December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.

— Zinaida Gippius

1. Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1910) 2. Imogen by Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1888) 3. King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler (1903) 4. Sir Galahad by George Frederic Watts (1862) LOTR + art (27/?)

“I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.” 

– 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜, 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒

❝ I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we. ❞

— Nikita Gill

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

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