with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue
Carol Ann Duffy, excerpt of Medusa (via ohproserpine)
William Shakespeare (via vaerity)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(via goodreadss)
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry (via loveage-moondream)
David Levithan
(via wordsnquotes)
Aries: Forest fortuna adiuvat. // Fortune favors the brave.
Taurus: Ex nihilo nihil fit. // Nothing comes from nothing.
Gemini: Mutantur omnia nos et mutamur in illis. // All things change and we change with them.
Cancer: Si vis amari, ama. // If you wish to be loved, love.
Leo: Vincit qui se vincit. // He conquers who conquers himself.
Virgo: Timendi causa est nescire. // Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Libra: Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori. // Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
Scorpio: Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo. // If I can not bend the will of Heaven, I shall move Hell.
Sagittarius: Veritas vos liberabit. // The truth will set you free.
Capricorn: Vitanda est improba siren desidia. // One must avoid that wicked temptress, laziness.
Aquarius: Astra inclinant, sed non obligant. // The stars incline us, they do not bind us.
Pisces: Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem. // As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
C. S. Lewis + Favorite Literature quotes.
are you brave? the devil asked.
no, she answered, but i am alive.
and sometimes those two things are the same (entry #2) // j.a.s (via astrafer)
Oscar Wilde + Favorite Literature quotes (for anonymous).
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via lesgardenias)
Words to keep inside your pocket:
- Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
- Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
- Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
- Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
- Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
- Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
- Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
- Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
- Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.
- Billet-doux - a love letter.
- Redamancy - act of loving in return.
if only I washed my skin properly
and scrubbed hard enough
but sometimes it feels
as if you actually got under my skin
to crawl through my veins
and spread with my blood
and no shower on earth
could help me with this.
// depths
j.d.m. (via poetryandthesea)