Boze the Library Owl
books, beauty, history, folklore. Dickens lover. married to @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
- “You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.” Baldwin
- instead of faking intelligence by submitting machine-generated essays, I recommend faking intelligence the old-fashioned way: by showing a lively curiosity towards the world and improving your mind by extensive reading.
- The hottest couples aren’t “normal” people, the hottest couples are mutually deranged, weird hobgoblins who share the same niche obsessions. Find someone who will be the Morticia to your Gomez.
- No one wants to hear this but you will find more wisdom in an old fairy-tale, a monologue from Shakespeare, a chapter of Jane Austen, than in all the self-help books in Barnes & Noble. You don't need more lifemaxxing, you need myth, poetry, beauty.
- That essay about students using chatbots to cheat on their essays is so depressing for me because it feels like curiosity and a love of learning are dying from the world. Why even attend school if you’re not hungry to learn? Don’t you have the slightest interest in this world? ...
