Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???
For those who can’t go to the ocean….
…I can bring an ocean to you.
thank you
Adding My Ocean:
have some more
Here’s mine.
Sappho and Ariadne (19th Century) by an unknown artist (attributed to the French School)
I do like that this pandemic has got us all greeting each other like Jane Austen characters- “You are well, I hope? And your family? All in good health?”
let’s bring back victorian blouses it’s about fucking time
i’m a body in a lake and i need to be pulled out and dressed in warm clothes again
(Richard Siken)
I wish I was a Jane Austen character so that instead of going insane, i could've gone to London with my aunt and uncle when things got rough.
Detail from William Frederick Yeames’s “Amy Robsart” (on display at Tate Britain).
“Sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the wave washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
— The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Anne Sexton, from a letter to Tillie Olsen featured in A Self-Portrait in Letters (via watchoutforintellect)
me when feeling suspiciously relaxed: what responsibility have i forgotten
Goodbye? Why we’ve only just met. Roman Holiday (1953) dir. William Wyler
