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Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report to Greco”, tr. by P. A. Bien

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another cool thing is when you devour a book over the course of a handful of hours and it fucks you up and you just have to lie on the couch feeling like your brain went swimming for too long & only just came up from under the water. art is so good

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“She asked Zeus for a divorce. He will not grant it.” “Is that what you want?” Hades asked. “A divorce?” He watched the god’s profile - the way his jaw clenched and fingers curled at the sound of the world. The God of Fire looked at Hades then, his brows drawn together, and there was a sincerity within his eyes Hades had never perceived before. “I want her to be happy.”

- A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

#a game of fate #hades and persephone

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Persephone and Hades - A Touch of Darkness

Artist: @/livish.art

#a touch of darkness #hades and persephone

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Will you be the Adeline to my Zade?

You don’t have much of a choice here,

Little mouse. 🥀

#haunting adeline #dark romance #zade meadows

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books books books <3

ig credit- @alllora

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the mortal instruments was a wild ass series. gay wizards. cunty vampires. angels nailed to basement floors. the heroine's father claims her boyfriend is his long lost son for like two or three books. werewolves run a chinese restaurant.

#the mortal instruments series #tmi series #cassie clare

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why do modern men even speak

when period piece men can do this 🎩💌😍

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I've spent all afternoon thinking about the line from Wentworth's letter "you sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others" and about how that really is the most important part of the letter. Yes "you pierce my soul" and "I have loved none but you" and "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago" are all more swoon-worthy. But the whole point of Persuasion is how Anne suffers because none of her friends or family acknowledge her needs or anything she says. She is made small by everyone around her. She is persuadable because she has been stripped of her agency; not by the circumstances of her life, but because the people in her life have talked over and down to her so much that she has stopped resisting. She knows that she won't be heard, so she just stops speaking. But then Wentworth hears her voice! He hears her, sees her, and he loves her for who she is, not what he wants her to be. I think Jane Austen knew exactly what she was doing by including that line. It's so subtle in such a purposeful way.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

#persuasion #jane austen

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yes girl you are so [if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more] [hands are unbearably beautiful] [i'll take care of you it's rotten work not to me not if it's you] [if you are intolerable let me be the one to tolerate you] [i could recognise him by touch alone] [i love you i want us both to eat well] [on purpose i love you on purpose] [whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same] [i am half agony half hope] [you have bewitched me body and soul and i love love love you] [he is half of my soul as the poets say] [i'm sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for but i'm so lonely] [i love you most ardently] [let me stay tender hearted despite despite despite] [someone has to leave first this is a very old story there is no other version of this story] [mostly i want to be kind] [tell me how all this and love too will ruin us] [you said i killed you haunt me then] [someone somewhere can you understand me a little love me a little] [i will love you as misfortune loves orphans as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong] [sorry about the blood in your mouth i wish it was mine] [who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me] can we kiss now

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Books and cats.

#books and kitties #kitties and books

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Can I get Jace Wayland for 300, please?

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

#jace herondale

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"'I have not made myself easy to love,' he says, and I hear the echo of his mother's words in his."

- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

#quotes #book quotes #cardan greenbriar #the queen of nothing

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The Teresiana Library // Mantova // Italy

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in paris, every bookstore feels like stepping into a quietly whispered secret, a world apart from the bustling streets. meandering through these spaces, the air holds a certain calm, rich with the scent of time-worn pages, inviting a pause, a breath. it’s not just about seeking new reads but about touching something timeless, a connection to the countless others who have thumbed through these volumes, their laughter and sighs still hanging softly between the books.

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Another truly excellent bookshop I could have spent all day in, a true home for lovers of cooking, kitchens, food — Kitchen Arts & Letters, NYC