I don’t read books to pass time. I read books to live.

teachingliteracy:

heathersreadingcorner

(Source: jimmyconways)

"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a great deal."

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 21 January 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)

dorothy-cotton:

being goth isn’t about the clothes or the music it’s about ravaging the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia as far as Cyprus, then sacking Athens, Byzantium, and Sparta.

ohsoromanov:

Note from Anastasia in 1903.

To His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor, Sarov.

Dear darling Papa, I kiss your hand.

Anastasia

"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now."

Edna St. Vincent Millay (via amandaonwriting)