
William Butler Yeats, “The Mermaid”
A student discussing Romeo & Juliet: Like, can you even IMAGINE being forbidden to love someone? The one person you want to marry is the person you can’t have? And all because of other people’s hatred?
My not-straight self: Yeah, that would…. um… be really bad… really not good…
You’re like a woman in a renaissance painting, smooth gauzy mist caressing your curves as you raise your face to the heavens. Your body is art. Never forget this.
“Find the stars within yourself, I promise they exist.”
— Kriti .G (via quotemadness)
It isn’t a fanfic unless Main Character has to tear their gaze away from the strip of skin revealed above Love Interest’s waistband when they casually stretch their arms above their head.
you can pry this trope from my cold dead hands
“The most dangerous girl is one that knows her own mind well, she carries too much deadly in her bones to be a distressed damsel, this is a girl who distresses demons instead.”
— Nikita Gill
“When a devil falls in love, it’s the most hauntingly beautiful thing ever.
And you should be terrified, for he will go to the depths of hell for her.”🕯
“The evil influence of the fairy glance does not kill, but it throws the object into a death-like trance, in which the real body is carried off to some fairy mansion, while a log of wood, or some ugly, deformed creature is left in its place, clothed with the shadow of the stolen form. Young women, remarkable for beauty, young men, and handsome children, are the chief victims of the fairy stroke. The girls are wedded to fairy chiefs, and the young men to fairy queens; and if the mortal children do not turn out well, they are sent back, and others carried off in their place. It is sometimes possible, by the spells of a powerful fairy-man, to bring back a living being from Fairy-land. But they are never quite the same after. They have always a spirit-look, especially if they have listened to the fairy music. For the fairy music is soft and low and plaintive, with a fatal charm for mortal ears.”
— Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland, Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde (via blackthornwren)