spring season is only now making a strong appearance here in ireland.
it's time to iron my summer dresses and flowery skirts, find the stowed-away tote bags, refresh the picnic blankets, retire gothic literature and look at my poetry and contemporary books.
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“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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St Hilda’s, one of Oxford’s old women’s colleges, looking spooky at night with its watching ‘eyes’ 👁👁
☆*: .my instagram.:*☆
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. –Bram Stoker
Carrol Borland in Mark of the Vampire (1935)
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James Matthew Barrie (9 May 1860) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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