#literature moodboards

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Literature Moodboards // Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

(requested by @livyamel)

[hollywoods-angel]

neapolitan novels-ferrante

the neapolitan novels series is the best series i've ever read, and the individual books are some of my favorite books. elena ferrante creates vivid characters and such detailed storylines that feel real.

the story starts with elena and lila, two girls growing up in post ww2 italy. it's a dangerous town, full of dangerous people, and the girls have nothing but themselves. as they grow older both girls go on different paths, elena goes on to get a higher education while lila marries as a teenager.

the four books go through their lives and the messiness of womanhood- marriages, divorce, affairs, children and maternal guilt. even when elena pulls away from lila there's something that always pulls her back to her childhood friend. the series goes through 6 decades when a tragedy breaks the two apart.

i read this series for a couple months, and finishing it made me so sad. i was completely invested in this, i would read for an hour everyday, at school when i finished my work early i wanted to read more. it's so hard to describe the plot of all the books, mainly it goes over their lives, how they intertwine and how they pull apart.

[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.

[septemberkisses]

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[rainreads]

"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

[cherrygazette]

i love studying. i love writing. i love reading. i love learning languages. i love doing mathematics. i love wandering over some particular sum and trying to come up with formulas to solve it. i love physics. i love biology. i love chemistry. i love history. i love literature. i love learning.

not to achieve the perfect grades ever. but it just amazes me that there's so much to know and learn and write and read about in the universe. my curiosity wouldn't get enough of it.

[luciferifilia]

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

— J.D. Salinger. (via. luciferifilia)

[jackxo]

𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖓 & 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖜𝖓 🌲🤎

[shakespearesdaughters]

[berlinsct]

[joytri]

I never left my emo phase, it just matured into dark academia like fine wine

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Literature Moodboards // Anne of Green Gables

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?

(requested by @skybluearia)

[the-reverii]

@the-reverii

[academia-lucifer]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

— Oscar Wilde.

[anelaxoxo]

@anelaxoxo

"And you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine."

Mary oliver, from Evidence :poems, "when i am among the trees"

[corpsebibliophile]

"Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it's incomparable in other ways. Sometimes it's heaven that the false fire of imagination could never capture."

Before the Coffee Gets Cold