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wedarkacademia · 3 months
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—If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio
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literaturecravings · 1 year
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— Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
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"When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?"
- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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hornyforpoetry · 3 months
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Greetings, my academics!
I just celebrated my 24th birthday and I wanted to show you all my cake. I just loved it!
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ephemerensis · 9 months
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LOOKING FOR DONNA TARTT MOOTS PLEASE I AM SICK AND TIRED OF FEELING INSANE SWIMMING IN MY OWN THOUGHTS I JUST NEED MORE DONNA ENJOYER FRIENDS interact/dm me i beg
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newvision · 1 year
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Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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swanqueencosmia · 2 months
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respectfully and in the most christian way possible, donna tartt haters deserve to bake their disgustingly tacky skin until it turns black like rotten figs in the deepest, darkest circle of hell where even the polarizingly unempathetic psycopath satan feels genuinely bad and sorry for the extreme and unforgettable traumatic pain they're experiencing for sinning and disdaining our holy spirit
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byronicist · 6 months
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"I came into this world already scarred by loss on both sides of my family. My Indigenous side; my European side. My father and my mother were the kind of damaged people who should never have had children. But of course, they had me, and so my first language was loss."
Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)
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ace3899 · 1 year
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The Holy Trinity of modern classics and dark academia: The Secret History, If We Were Villians, The Song of Achilles
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whoreshippingbooks · 1 month
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oh honey, that is love. this is how i love, i will wake you up from your grave just to cradle you back to sleep.
— muffinsincoffin, "a wolf talk with me"
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praisethelorde · 1 month
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I just finished re-reading The Secret History and now I long for the picturesque at all costs even more morbidly (I also now feel a deep sense of emptiness and melancholy but it's whatever).
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wedarkacademia · 1 year
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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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lunasbookshelf4 · 3 months
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why are people suddenly making it seem like you’re not a reader if you don’t read a specific amount of books each year?
You’re a reader if you’ve read 3 books last year and you’re a reader if you’ve read 40 books last year.
Reading literature is not supposed to be a chore or a competition, it’s supposed to be enjoyed and loved.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t love literature just because you’re a slow reader or because you simply don’t have time to read as much. It’s completely okay <3
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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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macrolit · 2 years
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To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
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thelittle-lady · 7 months
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He studies my face for several moments, like he cannot stop on the cover or the first page, like he needs to read the whole book every time.
— Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically
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