"He believed then that touching the sky had to do with where you were standing and how the clouds were that day. He believed that certain nights, when the moon rose full and wide as a corner of the sky, a person standing on the high sandstone cliff of that mesa could reach the moon."

- Silko, from Ceremony (pulled from an old high school english paper)

epic

(via i-love-art)

my summer plans

(via audreyryon)

"Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful."

- Robert Brault 

(via sweetsouthernnights)

you all know..howww much I adore this book.

"I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name. Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. ..The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years."

- the weight of glory, c.s. lewis

a fake book cover for my digital design class…featuring none other than the magnificent Cade Burk.

"Life is a fool if I can’t live the way it moves me."

such a wonderful book. 

such an epicccc book cover! Perhaps my favorite!