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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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These sounded poetic together :)

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YES

i’d like to make it clear that being well-read and having dumb bitch energy aren’t mutually exclusive. can i give you an in-depth analysis of an academic article? yeah. am i still a dumb bitch? yeah and proud

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'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)

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'run a botanical garden? why darling, i would love to'

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A friend of mine said that being selfless is a non-profit game, it drains you in the long run. We are humans after all, with not so beautiful emotions like anger and frustration, and there would come a day you'll want to give up from this role, to want to hate people, to want to give cold shoulder to recover yourself. But you see, I became selfless because all of that had already happened, said and done, broke and stitched at various timelines of mine. You see, being selfless was my choice amidst the chaos I've seen and been. Because if poets can choose to take the most vulnerable piece of themselves to knit it into art and emotions and a warm hug to the world, I think I can do so to. I want to do so too. Even though art may not come to me, I want to be art. I want to be comfort. I want to be a warm hug after a long day. Someone's hope. Even if it kills me at the end of the day, I think the pain will be worth it for the smiles I get and the purity of the moment shared between people similar to mine.

— excerpts from Screaming In The Dark by Shibu Elysian

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another random epiphany i had on my drive home from the store was that things that are the most obvious often feel the most profound. i was looking at the sunset through my window. i was like “this is beautiful and it changes all the time so every sunset is a little different and also beautiful.” which led me to think “if you look at the earth from space, the clouds are never pink or blue or yellow or orange, they are just white and grey all the time. in space perhaps the sunsets are not very different or very beautiful.” which led me to think “the sunsets are only beautiful because i am so small.” which led me to think “so many things are only beautiful because i am so small, or if not only then they are at least much more beautiful than they might otherwise be, either because my vantage point of smallness allows me to see details that big things wouldn’t see, like when i see the flash of the sun at sunset with my little eyes on this big planet, or because my briefness finds vastness so incredible cuz it’s so much bigger than me, like when i sit under a very very old and very very tall tree.” and this was all somewhat obvious but it didn’t make the feeling of epiphany go away or diminish at all

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"In my life I have found two things of priceless worth– learning and loving. Nothing else– not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake– can possibly have the same lasting value. For when life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved', you will be able to say 'I have been happy'."

– Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

#words #to live by

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The beauty of women

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Yalnızlığın sesinden, Bir resim yaptım.

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Remember those days when reading books was the only thing you used to do all summer? *sigh* Growing up sucks

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let's spend a full day in the library and conquer our alleys and kiss around the classical section and hold hands on the way out please

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I want to be politically informed and educated but I also wanna have a good day and be in a good mood. Do you see my problem?