Out chasing waterfalls today in the freezing Irish countryside 🥶. #waterfall #ireland #powerscourtwaterfall #nature

Happy New Year from Albufeira (Algarve, Portugal)!🥳 📷 Highlights from last night's fireworks and drone show

Took a peek at 2025 and the sun is shining, that’s a good sign isn’t it 😅 …or it’s just lulling us into a false sense of security 😬 …time will tell. Happy New Year to all 😊. #happynewyear #isitthefutureyet

Morning. Christmas Elves sheltering under a robin’s wings, Margaret Tarrant.

The kids are up even earlier than last year 🥱, here we go again! 🎄 #MerryChristmas

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol #ClassicLitMonday 📖 Merry Christmas!🎄😊

“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass #ClassicLitMonday

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures." #ClassicLitMonday 📖

Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine. #Dickens A Christmas Carol #ClassicLitMonday

#ClassicLitMonday “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

"...who bragged that they could not read; they prided themselves on the sort of militant ignorance that gave them the audacity to censure what they knew nothing about." --Madeleine de Scudéry-- 📖 The Story of Sapho translated by Karen Newman 🖼️Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot #ClassicLitMonday

Back in the days, Norwegians believed that the dead might pay a visit on Christmas night, therefore all beds had to be kept unoccupied, so the ancestors could sleep in them. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket Illustration: IsidorSwande

#BookWormSat “My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

The candle’s light did show a world in shadow, but soft enough to keep the heart’s deepest secrets safe.’ ~ Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale. #BookWormSat

‘The candlelight flickered faintly, casting long shadows on the walls as if trying to escape the weight of the night.’ ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Pieter Claesz

“The days of our future stand in front of us like a row of little lit candles -- golden, warm, and lively little candles.” Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles” #BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️ #Art 🎨 by agarthaai2030 #bookquotes #literature

"And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book... flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out forever." —Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy #BookWormSat

Night's winged horses No one can outpace But midnight is no moment Midnight is a place 🖊 Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place #BookWormSat ##BookChatWeekly 🎨 Jan Pienkowski

Behind every twisted candle, lies a story waiting to be unraveled. The Sign Of The Twisted Candles Carolyn Keene #BookWormSat

“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father.” ~ A Christmas Carol in Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas (1843), Charles Dickens. #BookWormSat #MarvelComics #Spoilers [🎨Bob Hall]

#BookWormSat A glance at the window enlightened me further, and the striking of a match completed the picture. -Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark"(Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë) Here is my song "The Lingering Light" #bookwormsat Listen here and add it to your playlists 🕯️🙏 open.spotify.com/track/1xXKea...

“All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth #BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️ #Art 🎨 by AlejandroCastillo

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice #BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️ #Art 🎨 by fabianrensch #bookquotes #literature

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi #BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️ #Art 🎨 by tamaraR #bookquotes #literature

“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.” Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom #BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️ #Art 🎨 by KavindaDesign #bookquotes #literature

'Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.' -Emile Zola 🎨Knut Ekwall #BookWormSat

"Gollum laughed. 'The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their names,' he cackled. 'You should not look in when the candles are lit...[walk] very carefully! Or you'll go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles." Tolkien, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' #BookwormSat 🖼️Cor Blok, 1959

‘In the midst of the darkness, a solitary candle shone, and in its flicker, a promise of warmth and light.’ ~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol For #BookWormSat 🖼️ Arthur Rackham

Though there could be nothing really in it, there was something whimsical, it was certainly a very remarkable coincidence! She took her candle and looked closely at the cabinet. #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey #BookWormSat Jane Austen

"How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again .... If your heels are nimble and your toes are light, You can get there by candlelight." - English nursery rhyme 🎨 Lee Avison #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

My grandmother once showed me how to dip candles and said that uneven ones were thought to predict illness. I laughed, but I couldn’t help examining every candle for bumps and twists after hearing her stories. #BookWormSat

Will-o'-the-Wisp, Jack-o'-lantern, friar's lantern, or hinkypunk: faeries that mislead travellers by resembling a flickering lamp "... and good-bye, good-bye, to the Will-o'-the-Wisp, who dies when the day is born" ~ A C Huestis #BookWormSat #folklore 🖼 Hermann Hendrich

Any excuse to post a vintage Gothic Romance cover! "The handsome, ruthless stranger was after something in the house, and nothing – not even Margo herself – was going to stand in his way of getting it." Widow in White - Evelyn Bond Cover art - Walter Popp #BookWormSat #womenrunningfromhouses

"The light of a candle Is transferred to another candle— Spring twilight" ✍️Yosa Buson, Lighting One Candle #BookWormSat 📷Freepik

"It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open." —Frankenstein, Mary Shelley #BookWormSat

'My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!' -Edna St. Vincent Millay @signemaene.com welcomes you to a #BookWormSat about little lights in the darkness.

‘The candlelight was falling on the ground, and the beauty of the wax was yet in its first state, as when the fire of life first kindles in the heart.’ ~ Wilde Tomorrow is Day of the Little Candles in Columbia and we‘ll celebrate with all bookish candlelight for #BookWormSat 🕯️ 🖼️ J Kirk Richards

Not a bad scan of my slight digital presence from www.blueskyroast.com I should do less quotes and more rage bait posting for 2025, shake things up and sharpen me up and make me ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence 🕰️ 🍊 📖😉

Good morning Happy #thicktrunktuesday treelovers around the world !

Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Kelly Louise Judd

Today's one of those days.🥱😴☕️ Happy Tuesday and keep the coffee coming!🙋‍♀️☕️☕️☕️ #GoodMorningBlueSky #BookSky #Translators #CoffeeTime

“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven #ClassicLitMonday 📖

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude #ClassicLitMonday

#ClassicLitMonday „Old feelings gather fast upon me Like vultures round their prey — Kind were they once, and cherished But cold and cheerless now I would their lingering shades had perished When their light left my brow“ 🪶Emily Jane Brontë

Rivers of fire at dead of night in winter lying cold and white upon the plain burst forth, and high the red was mirrored in the sky. J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien #ClassicLitMonday

#ClassicLitMonday “You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.” - As You Like It #ShakespeareSunday 🎭 ‘Winter’