Something that always kinda gets on my nerves is just how narrow people’s mind is when it comes to Athena’s interests.

Oh she’s the goddess of warfare and strategy? Must be playing chess then. Like, no, she’s gonna be playing shit like kriegsspiel, a complex Prussian war game that simulates actual warfare. Of course she’d absolutely kill at chess, but like, what’s she gonna be into more? A board game or a wargame.

Planning on bringing a Jane Austen novel on a family vacation as if I wasn’t enough of a stereotype already

Illustrations from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

"Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.”

- Coraline | Neil Gaiman

"Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. She sometimes wondered who they thought they were talking to."

So do i, Coraline, so do i ...

"I was kidnapped by aliens,” said Coraline. “They came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.”

Just wondering, how do you laugh in a foreign accent?

lol

Coraline sighed. “You really don’t understand, do you?” she said. “I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?”

~ Coraline

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

- Sylvia Plath, from 'Ariel'

Illustrations from Dante’s Inferno by John D. Batten (1933)

To the friendships, which killed and gave birth to thousand new lives,

To the friendships, which were supposed to live but died in the laughter of time,

To the friendships, which were supposed to be cure but turned out to be poison.

- Sana

just found a thing from senior year of hs where I talked abt having read the Heroides for the first time.

pro: turns out my favorite letter (Medea to Jason) was my favorite letter was my favorite from the very beginning

con: turns out I read the whole Ariadne letter thinking she was Andromeda

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Read if You Like:

Classics

Science Fiction

Dystopian Fiction

Fantasy

Recommended if You Enjoy:

George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)

Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

Lois Lowry (The Giver)

Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

3.5/5

That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

my favourite/recently read books as arctic monkeys songs :)

Atticus

Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

Sure, a lot of people hate geminis. But can you spell gemini without ‘gem’? I don’t think so..

"The floor seems wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no further."

– Sylvia Plath.