extracts

Heavy on musical theatre. Other than that quotes and costume (in the broadest sense of the word). Occasionally personal but if so, vague.

[fleetling]

[...] y le enseñaba a rezar el rosario que, según decía, era la mejor forma de pasar las horas sin pensar y al mismo tiempo ganar el cielo sin mucho esfuerzo.

—Isabel Allende, Hija de la fortuna

[polinsated]

penelope featherington + hairstyles in season 3 part 1

[fleetling]

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

—Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

[eloiscbridgerton]

Every Bertha/George kiss from seasons 1 to 3 of The Gilded Age (2022–)

[fleetling]

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

[fatmagic]

[fleetling]

The destination was to head towards a freer life. That is a vague destination, no one knows what it looks like when we get there. It is a journey without end, but I did not know that then. I was just on my way. Where else was there to head for?

—Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

[themakeupbrush]

Charithra Chandran at the 2026 Academy Awards

[fleetling]

The subject of where we are from is mostly not a two-second answer. It is a long conversation, maybe an endless conversation.

—Deborah Levy, Real Estate

[fleetling]

I will never stop grieving for my long-held wish for enduring love that does not reduce its major players to something less than they are. I am not sure I have often witnessed love that achieves all of those things, so perhaps this ideal is fated to be a phantom.

—Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

[northbndtrain]

Velvet S1 E2 “La Costurera” [“The Seamstress”] = fashion (1 of 3)

[fleetling]

Si hay algo que caracteriza y une a la mayoría de la humanidad (y al decir esto me refiero a cuantos han pasado por la tierra desde tiempos inmemoriales), es que a todos nos influye el universo sin que nosotros podamos influir en él lo más mínimo, o apenas.

—Javier Marías, Berta Isla

[berthas-russells]

COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE (2024-2026) ❖ 2x01 "Alegrías de amaranto"

[fleetling]

There is something very uplifting about a pom-pom.

—Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

[ncutii-gatwa]

#i understand him deeply The Importance of Being Earnest (2025) dir. Max Webster

[fleetling]

And I promise you, I promise, that everything will be dazzlingly well!

—Mikhail Bulgakov (tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky), The Master and Margarita

[happy-xy]

🎶 Pale, pale moon. Pale, pale moon. 🎶

SINNERS (2025) Directed by Ryan Coogler