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"We were immured in ice and should probably never escape" (Mary Shelley)

🎨 Bernie Wrightson

17 86
2022-12-23

"High in the halls of the kings who are gone,
Jenny would dance with her ghosts..."

- Jenny of Oldstones and Duncan Targaryen, Prince of Dragonflies as mentioned in A Storm of Swords by G.R.R.Martin
🖼️ Jessi Ochse

5 25
2022-12-10

"Ah, distinctly I remember
it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember
wrought its ghost upon the floor. "
~ Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

21 59
2022-12-09

"Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark
Her sails are full, though the wind is still,
And there blows not a breath her sails to fill."
(Thomas Moore)

🎨 Ferdinand Leeke

16 53
2022-12-07

‘That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from
anyone. You belong.’
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

55 283
2022-12-06

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"May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon."

Lisa Kleypas


21 80
2022-12-05

Then joining hands to little hands
Would bid them cling together,
“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather…”

~ The Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti

🎨 Victoriasmoon


11 30
2022-11-30

'The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.'
-Robert Frost

🎨James Christopher Hill

22 82
2022-11-30

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

🎨 Source: Daydreams and Moonbeams


16 60
2022-11-29

'Black and monotonously sounding is the midnight and solitude of the rain.'
-Edward Thomas

🎨Catia Chien

16 66
2022-11-29

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

25 84
2022-11-27

'But where in the world is the path for me
Except the river that runs to the sea!'
-Zoe Akins

31 142
2022-11-27

'The sun, that fills with light each glistening fold,
Shall set, and leave thee dark and cold'
-William Cullen Bryant

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)

25 118
2022-11-23

For Book Recommendations on Chinese Legends around Chang'e, Hou Yi & the Jade Rabbit:
's "An Arrow to the Moon"
's "Daughter of the Moon Goddess"
's "Burning Roses"
G. Z. Schmidt's "The Dreamweavers"

5 8
2022-11-21

Darklings!

A new week beckons, lights are still on, blue bird is still... alive and should open your lore & books week tomorrow, while flutters through the November gloom, quotes sombrely (for too) and RTs your dark gems!

9 49
2022-11-21

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
(Joseph Conrad)

🎨 Thomas Moran

38 154
2022-11-18

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music" (C.S. Lewis)

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

36 155
2022-11-17

Darklings!

Time to haunt the nightly autumnal woods - we'll meet you tomorrow for another bout a nature for

🎨 13_con

12 99
2022-11-13

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature”

~ Jane Austen


15 31
2022-11-10

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night" (Milton)

🎨 Henry Fuseli

14 68
2022-11-08