Beauty is Terror

forgive me for all the things I did, but mostly for those I did not

[thesevvs]

henry and francis being dumb as fuck

[worm-generator]

man. the secret history has become so synonymous with dark academia that when u look through the tag its just knit sweaters and latte art. like please show me a text post about how fucking unhinged richard was for staying in a room with a Literal hole in the wall during the dead of winter and almost dying of hypothermia.

[artemisiasescape]

No babe you look wonderful your black great coat makes you look exactly like a cross between Jack the Ripper and a student prince

[olympip]

the best part of The Secret History is Richard being like "yeah i'm pretty good at lying, kind of a skill of mine" and then absolutely fumbling through every single lie he tells

[terrible-horrible-mind-of-aspen]

I love reading The Secret History because you’ll get moments like

Richard: Maybe your smoking habit is why you feel like you can’t breathe

Francis: No that can’t possibly be it. I will also not go to the psychiatrist through

[write-the-room]

[notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder]

bro. bro you are romantisizing the secret history. bro you are enamored with the greek class just like richard. bro you are ignoring the bad things and creating aesthetics based on a book telling a murder of a young man. brother.

[emrsynwl]

Mf’s biggest concern after murdering his friend was having to tell the police he was watching a trashy movie as an alibi

[ccuniculusmolestus]

Bunny Corcoran be like “I know a spot” and then scams you with a 300$ bill in an expensive restaurant

[worm-generator]

man. the secret history has become so synonymous with dark academia that when u look through the tag its just knit sweaters and latte art. like please show me a text post about how fucking unhinged richard was for staying in a room with a Literal hole in the wall during the dead of winter and almost dying of hypothermia.

[iamthemaestro]

I too react this way when the phone rings

[vermillionbedfellow]

i love every character in the secret history. they're all freaks. they're all alcoholics. they're snobs. they deserve nothing but the worst. i adore them. i want to study them as if i were a mad ornithologist and they were rare, cantankerous, bastard birds.

[quaintrelledragicorn]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[chillwithhana-deactivated202407]

Come on charles , you do it too

[hwnnqa]

i think the thing that shocked me the most when re-reading the secret history was discovering that richard’s actual name isn’t richard. it’s john. john richard papen. and he just mentions it very briefly and it never comes up again. hello?? what do you mean, your name is john????

[calidores]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[daisy-finch]

The only secret in, The Secret History is how unbelievably gay Richard is, which again is not really a secret.