glow in the light
"The woman herself was beautiful - Will saw that with shock - lovely in the moonlight, her brilliant dark eyes wide with enchantment, her slender shape light and graceful; but as she snapped her fingers, the monkey stopped at once and leapt up into her arms, and he saw that the sweet-faced woman and the evil monkey were one being."
When I was a kid my mom came back with this book called "The golden compass". She asked the librarian for a book that was Harry Potter-like. I'm still not certain why that librarian gave my mom Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' but I'm so glad he did. I loved it, devoured it. Even though I wasn't able to understand the deeper meanings of the text I was so hyped by a female, same-age protagonist, charmed by armoured bears and cuts between worlds and I was so fucking scared of this woman. Mrs Coulter was as dreadful as Voldemort to me, if not even worse.
Nowadays I happen to reread it every once in a while, but I still feel melancholic when I think about the pure thrill and enjoyment of the very first, innocent reading.
“The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.”
— John Stuart Mill, “Civilization”, London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
me: how am i single
me: *emotionally detached, picky af, doesn’t go out at all, has disgusting habits, too shy to talk to anyone they find cute, etc.*
me: how am i single