“You’re Not A Monster,” I Said. But I Lied. What I Really Wanted To Say Was That A Monster Is Not

“You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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"the Skeleton Flower Is A White Flower That Turns Translucent When It Rains"
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3 years ago

For my fellow Dark Academia pretencious wannabe students that have an obssession for TSH;

If you want to learn what Julian teaches in his classes, read Poetics by Aristotle. It’s not as hard to read as it looks, and you don’t need much pre-knowledge in philosophy to understand it, just need to know a little bit about greek tragedies (Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocle, Odissey and Illiad by Homer are good ways to start). Reading it will make you feel you’re a part of the classics murderer friends group.

If you want other rec books that are good to introduce you to philosophy, just comment here!

3 years ago
There Is Something So Comforting, So Soothing About A Mug Of Hot Chocolate. No Matter How Old I Am, I
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There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.

Lisa Schroeder, My Secret Guide to Paris


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7 months ago

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

11 months ago

good things to pay attention to more often

the color of trees

clouds and how they look different throughout the day

the different colors the mornings can have. sometimes it's an orange hue and sometimes pink and sometimes it's too misty to tell

pretty color schemes in random places (the trees and your neighbors wooden patio and the color of their car)

the states of the vehicles passing you by, dents and scratches and the different trinkets suspended from their rearview mirrors

the sound of silence

the shadows the lights cast in your home, like how sunset looks different than sunrise, and the shadows the sun casts look different than those of your lamps and candles

pretty details in buildings and houses like certain types of windows or doorknobs or archways

the movement of things in the wind. flags, leaves, flowers, people's hair and coats

1 year ago

Literally unfollowing every single celebrity that comes across my timeline and I encourage you to follow the same.

1 year ago
Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

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