a lighthouse keeper in me

[a lighthouse keeper in me]

[holdhertightandsayhername]

✨ATTENTION ALL OUTLANDER FANS!✨

@autumncottageattic​ lives in Kiev, Ukraine with her mother; they cannot leave the city at the moment. She and I have followed each other for ages. She is a talented artist and has an etsy shop. I told her she should consider selling some of her Outlander drawings - I mean, LOOK:

Many people showed interest on Twitter, so she just listed 4 drawings on Etsy! If you would like to send her some love, you can purchase them here.

(note that you will be buying a *digital* file to download, not a physical print!). 

My favourite: 😍

Feel free to send her a DM, too! and please share/repost!

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[luthienne]

With all the suffering there is, you begin to feel ashamed of taking yourself and your moods so seriously. But you must continue to take yourself seriously, you must remain your own witness, marking well everything that happens in this world, never shutting your eyes to reality. You must come to grips with these terrible times and try to find answers to the many questions they pose. And perhaps the answers will help not only yourself but also others.

Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)

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[aleenaaashhh]

Jane Austen's works are timeless classics because she knew the real horrors in life are having to listen to men who think they're better than you and receiving unannounced visitors.

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[quotemadness]

“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.”

— Sarah Kay

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Anonymous asked:

when do you feel the most beautiful?

pearlkillers answered:

when a dog pulls on his leash on the sidewalk because he wants to come say hi to me

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[jaded-mandarin]

Max Jensen. Detail from Seagulls over the Waves, 19th Century.

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[genterie]

Normal People (2020)

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[metamorphesque]

— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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[gohth]

not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold

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[kjscottwrites]

If you had to pick, what’s the ONE trait in a fictional character that makes you immediately go “oh this one’s mine”

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[intricatecakes]

if u are reading this i am pouring positive vibes on u from a lil watering can

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[madeofwhitebone]

“I used to think that the ability to turn back time would be the greatest possible gift, so that I could undo all the things I wish I hadn’t done. But grace is an even better gift, because it allows me to do more than just erase; it allows me to become more than I was when I did those things. It’s forgiveness without forgetting, which is much sweeter than amnesia.”

— Shauna Niequist (via oliveandsage)

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[halfof-mysoul]

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

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[impracticality]

I would be unstoppable if not for the problems

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[kosmo-mckogane]

rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"

[vancityfire13]

I am also “damn, girl, you wrote this? (forgetful)”

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[moonachilles]

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

[nitewrighter]

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

[theonlycabbage]

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him