For You Alone I Will Be Weak

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

[spitblossoms]

[hirxeth]

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

[simena]

 Nathaniel Sichel

[hxrnyonmain-deactivated20220829]

When you crave pain and rage and violence and death and destruction but you're just a girl.

[guinevereslancelot]

she's a 10 but not handsome enough to tempt me

[sonjackcarl]

[ediths-shades]

Costume appreciation

TRINI ALVARADO in LITTLE WOMEN (1994) [1/?]. 

Costume design by Colleen Atwood.

[daweyt]

arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" and "it is not enough to say love in Arabic, you must say 'be the thing that buries me'" could have got jane austen crying and shaking

[solsburryhill]

cant sleep too busy thinking about “love is awful. it’s awful. it’s painful. it’s frightening. it makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. it makes you selfish. it makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. it’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. so no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. i was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. people talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. but i’m not sure that’s true. it takes strength to know what’s right. and love isn’t something that weak people do. being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. i think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.”

[ofeylia]

Green Dresses in Film 

Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl / Keira Knightley in Atonement / Adèle Haenel in Portrait of a Lady on Fire / Kim Min-hee in The Handmaiden 

“Like a gemstone, it’s seductive. A green that leaves everyone, including the viewer, aching.”

“The green dress is a statement piece. It commands attention, adoration, and wealth. Its deep green hues are eerie yet hypnotizing (luring) the protagonist… much like how mythical creatures, like sirens whose tails are also green, would lure humans to their demise. Each of the film’s protagonist(s) are drawn to the women, falling for them despite knowing they are from different “worlds” (or) social classes.”

- Rosalind Jana, via girlsonfilm from Twitter 

[newvision]

— Hanya Yanagihara, from A Little Life

[ibuprofengirl]

stories where the past is a wound that refuses to heal

[ibuprofengirl]

ok stories where the past is an itch you keep absentmindedly scratching and wonder why the burning is getting worse

[ibuprofengirl]

all i’m saying is: the past is a bodily sensation

[flowerytale]

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

[odysseusrex]

the muse said it’s my turn to tell the iliad

[bilover]

if i bring a book someplace it doesn't necessarily mean i want to read it mayb i just want to take her own a walk. Get her some fresh air and a change of scenery

[twinsfawn]

family tree — ethel cain

[liverpoolrules]

You understand, the titles, the dukedom. They’re not the job. She is the job. She is the essence of your duty. Loving her. Protecting her. Of course, you’ll miss your career. But doing this for her, doing this for me, there may be no greater act of patriotism. Or love.

                                             The Crown (Season 1)