bookwild - Tumblr blog

[bookwild]

literature:  —  dorian gray  { the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde }

“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able to do.”

“But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, and old, and wrinkled? What then?”

[bookwild]

Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”

[bookwild]

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

[bookwild]

[bookwild]

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (2020) 

[bookwild]

οικογένεια : n. family

[bookwild]

Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, ca. 1850. 

James Sant (British, 1820–1916)

Oil on canvas

[bookwild]

[bookwild]

i think i’ll continue to wear a mask when this shit’s all over, and huge sunglasses. my face is none of your business

[bookwild]

Here’s a 2020 edition of that coffee post — it seems that no matter what I am still all about iced coffee (with oat milk) when I’m writing on hot summer days 

[bookwild]

withniki

[bookwild]

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

[bookwild]

[bookwild]

Dark Academic Starter Pack

[bookwild]

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[bookwild]

[bookwild]

a very special copy of interview with the vampire; I borrowed it from one of my favorite English teachers before the pandemic started, and now I may not get to return it