“...the light grew in strength and splendor as it neared death, drawing long shadows across the pasture, falling full on the rich stone spaces of the house, firing the panes in the windows, glowing on cornices and colonnade and dome, spreading out all the stacked merchandise of colour and scent from earth and stone and leaf...” #evelynwaugh #sundayreads
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practise.”
#litsyclassics #emforster #travelreads
“Our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone - has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash - together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” (from Youth: A Narrative) #josephconrad #litsyclassics #holidayreads
"...and he watched with an immeasurable sadness their last effort of gaiety, which was like a dance that life makes upon the body of death." #johnwilliams #holidayreads #mustreads #favorites
"I think he was the bravest man in the world, for he was always shivering with fright, and yet nothing would choke him off."
#octoberreads #johnbuchan #studybreak
Thanks to @whatshesreadingnow for tagging. :)
1. All of them probably (which means grades 1-4 here). 🤓
2. We don‘t really have electives, favorite subjects though: Advanced arts & advanced English, history, geography and German.
3. Nope - will probably (hopefully) someday though.
4. Ireland, maybe.
5. This my first time doing this, do you still tag someone if Friday‘s almost over? 😅 Will try with @jmofo maybe? :)
„Sind am Horizont nicht Blumen und Teiche und eine Landschaft, die so still ist, daß er weinen möchte, der Soldat?“
#litsyclassics #erichmariaremarque #native #history #holidayreads
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
#litsyclassics #janeausten #goodnight #😴
“it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.”
#litsyclassics #virginiawoolf #studybreak
“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
#litsyclassics #trainreads #jamesjoyce
“This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This is the common air that bathes the globe.”
#litsypoetry #poetry
„Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.“
