#books & literature

[crystaletters]

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly".

— Franz Kafka

[warblingandwriting]

Okay why do 2002 adaptations of classic 19th century literature love adding Hot Air Balloons so much? That gif if from The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) and the photo is from The Importance of Being Earnest (also 2002) and neither of them call for a hot air balloon!

Even I, a balloon lover, do not understand this, at that point in history (mid to late 1800s) they would have been a 100 year old fad (since they were invented in the eighteenth century) and The Count in particular seems more like the type who would be skeptical of something like the Hot Air balloon.

Obviously this balloon adding wasn't a huge trend, but for me, it's weird that it happened twice

[staycerosa]

Les Misérables: Chapter IX - Thenardier at his Manoeuvres

“No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was leaving that hated and hating house.

Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour!

Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God.”

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[joytri]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

[deviika]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette

[nando161mando]

oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

[soliusss]

Funniest thing I’ve seen on tiktok are those sigma male boys getting mad that American psycho was written by a gay man and going “well I like fight club better” buddy I’ve got some world ending devastating news for you

[academia-lucifer]

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

[crystaletters]

I wish you a kinder sea.

Emily Dickinson

[cansu-m]

[staycerosa]

JeanValjean and Marius.

[the-swift-tricker]

in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

[words-at-night]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}