#light academia literature

[blackthunder137]

Stay with me entirely, dearest,

stay for me as you are;

[blondielover]

I'm such a man who leans in doorways, relaxes against the counter, dramatically sprawls across a couch and sighs melodramatically.

[poseidonsarmoury]

[literaturecravings]

—4th November 1969: Letter to William Maxwell, Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner

[burning-pining-perishing]

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

~ Bram Stoker, Dracula

[ace3899]

Period Drama Recommendation | North and South, 2004 BBC Network

Sometimes on rainy days, you just have to abandon everything be it work or study and sit by the window making art while watching an enemies to lovers period drama (North and South, 2004 BBC Network), for the third time in a row !!!!

[sarcasticandfangirl]

On love 

[fridaysvalentine]

“Upstream” - Blue Iris, by Mary Oliver

[catsbookscoffeeandlove]

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝

[joytri]

[blackthunder137]

Perhaps one did not want to be loved

so much as to be understood

[blondielover]

I think we should be friends with a lot of sexual tension.

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

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

[wedarkacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[jayvespertine]

— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

[burning-pining-perishing]

“Some change had come over her body. Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines; even the lips had lost their deadly pallor. It was as if the blood, no longer needed for the working of the heart, had gone to make the harshness of death as little rude as might be.

We thought her dying whilst she slept

And sleeping when she died.”

~ Dracula, Bram Stoker