can't imagine anything more lovely

i tend to fall in love with everything and everyone.

[sassydw]

[witchyautumns]

🍂 viktoriashu 🍂

[elizabeth-beauchamp-deactivated]

No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.

Normal People by Sally Rooney (via lcbeauchampoftarth)

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

Maybe they were just curious to observe the chemistry between two people who, over the course of several years, apparently could not leave one another alone.

Normal People, Sally Rooney (via chanelbagsandcigarettedrags)

[inkdusted]

Books & Cupcakes Photo Challenge | August | Day 20: Book Recommendation.

I cannot recommend this book enough. I’ve read it twice now and both times I’ve had to just hold it to my chest once I was finished with it. It’s wonderful. 

[lsleofskye]

A couple of houses situated perfectly on Madeiras steep north coast | skeye_photo

[craved-deactivated20230908]

“Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?”

— Tennessee Williams (via quotemadness)

[iglovequotes]

https://iglovequotes.net/

[typography-images]

[anythingmorelovely]

because who hasn’t done that— loved so intently even after everything has gone? Loved something that has washed its hands of you?

Nathan McClain

[iglovequotes]

https://iglovequotes.net/

[poetic-pics]

Never forget me…

[weltenwellen]

You’ll always be sad about this,“ (…) "But it doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice. It’s just something that you have to carry.

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere (via weltenwellen)

[bookworm-on-rainy-days]

One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules… was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.” 

― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

[whilereadingandwalking]

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng is the novel teasing suburban life and motherhood that I’ve been waiting for. I grew up in the suburbs, with their small hypocrisies and struggles, and so many novels set in them are exaggerated and overdone, dedicated to Real-Housewives-level drama. Ng’s novel does not take that approach: it is subtle, and as a result, it succeeds.

Ng’s novel is one about microaggressions and misunderstanding, about people who believe that there are rules and so that things are black-and-white, of small things turned big scandals, of all families’ business at least a little on display, of rich white liberals who believe they’re on the right side of things and so ignore their own issues. Mia and her daughter Pearl have been moving around for years, but they settle now in the rented apartment owned by the Richardsons, a seemingly idyllic family. New connections form, but tension arrives with a controversial custody case between a Chinese mother who originally abandoned her child and the white couple who took in the baby. A well-written and compelling novel, Ng’s book presents many kinds of motherhood, questioning—without giving a direct response—what it means to truly be a mother, to be a good mother, to be the right mother. Meanwhile, the drama slowly festers, poking fun at the strange, small cruelties of a suburban community while revealing how those seemingly subtle moments of betrayal, of meanness, of falsity, can pile into a disaster.

[lsleofskye]

Kula, Hawaii | frank.shoots

[lsleofskye]

Watkins Glen - the Gorge | mblockk