──Love letters and love notes.

everyone hates orange until they actually see her in context. "oh it's such an ugly color, too bright!" look at sunsets and autumn, look at campfires and deserts. she's the most beautiful and special part of the scene. now apologize.

“You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan Sontag, from an interview conducted c. October 1979.

── Latin phrases I wish to remember: • “Veni, vidi, vici” — I came, I saw, I conquered. • “Vivamus, moriendum est” — Let us live, for we must die. • “Ergo dum me diligis” — So long as you love me.

not to be a dramatic person, but the iconic emily bronte line “i wish i were a girl again, half savage and hardy and free” hits me in the chest every time and transports me to an undisclosed rural hill in england some time in the 1800s with my hair tangling in the wind.

If I could live in a museum, I would.

—Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933, featured in The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas.

—This autumn will be yours. I believe in you, you got this.

—Maggie Stiefvater, Linger.

I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days. And thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.

favourite thing in the world is when the pages of a book go all soft and yellowy and the edges are slightly fuzzy and rounded. these books couldn’t give you a papercut if you tried they’ve been loved too much. they love you too much.