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


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

🎨James Christopher Hill

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

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

🎨 Source: Daydreams and Moonbeams


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

🎨Catia Chien

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"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)

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

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

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)

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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"

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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!

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“It difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly”✨🐈‍⬛✨

— Theophile Gautier, Ménagerie intime




🌙Dillon Samuelson

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

🎨 Thomas Moran

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

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

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Darklings!

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

🎨 13_con

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“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


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

🎨 Henry Fuseli

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"This forest is a dangerous place," said the birds in unison.
"Now that I'm here, it most certainly is."

Quote and Art by Asya Yordanova/Tumblr

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“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear…”

~ Walt Whitman

🎨 The Fishercat by spocha


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"And cried, homesick for his fair native lake:
"Rain, when will you fall? Thunder, when will you roll?"
I see that hapless bird, that strange and fatal myth"
(Baudelaire)

🎨 Jan Asselijn (c 1650)

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Join us today as we hang out with our Wynderful pals at
and and of course, as usual, will happily retweet your bookish posts📚✨ https://t.co/umcSnszPid

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

—W. Somerset Maugham
Illustration by Chris Dunn

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