From now on I will make burning my aim,
for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.
for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.
Rumi, excerpt of The Ship Sunk in Love (via wearyvoices)
To be so lonely you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.
& almost believed it was true.
Natalie Wee, from ‘(Suicide Letter In) Parts, 2010′, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (via soracities)
ilvermorny houses ✧ horned serpent, created by Isolt Sayre
Sometimes considered to represent the mind of a witch or wizard. It is also said that Horned Serpent favours scholars.
I hope you all fall in love with someone who never stops choosing you and I hope you feel at home when you look at them
[…] and I sank beneath the amorous sadness of night.
Arthur Rimbaud, from “Deserts of Love (I),” Rimbaud Complete, transl. by Wyatt Mason (via deflorij)
That was the feeling that possessed her now—the feeling of being something rootless and ephemeral, mere spin-drift of the whirling surface of existence.
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
(via antigonick)
(via antigonick)
Matt Damon on set of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (dir. Anthony Minghella, 1999)
Ph: Brigitte Lacombe