memories never fade

I'm the kind of person who doesn't know what she wants from life yet & each time i think i want something, its usually the opposite of what i really want. I'm indecisive - it's just who I am. Imagination is a dangerous thing ~ Happiness is a state of miind *Sometimes being you is all you can ever do.* l.o.v.e. l.i.f.e Ask me anything :) Follow<3?

[blue-eyes-never-lie]

[palaceoftears]

Today is Valide Kösem Sultan's death anniversary, R.I.P this charitable and strong woman.

"Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day,

Nothing gold can stay."

-Robert Frost

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[annakarenina]

“As you wish” was all he ever said to her. That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying “as you wish”, what he meant was “I love you”.

THE PRINCESS BRIDE — 1987, dir. Rob Reiner

+ BONUS:

[the-borgias]

Film meme: [4/10] animation » RATATOUILLE (2007) Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau’s, who is, in this critic’s opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau’s soon, hungry for more.

[oatmilksgf]

merry christmas to everyone who’s spending it alone and/or is going through a really tough time. i hope you have a wonderful day today and tomorrow and that next year is good to you 💖

[the-borgias]

The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his 21st year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

[678i0u]

We have loved these people since the day we arrived. When you love something, you protect it.

ETERNALS 2021 | dir. Chloé Zhao

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[latristereina]

Catherine, for all her ‘broken English’, made the speech of her life. But its effect was not so much rhetorical as forensic. By appearing to take her husband’s protestations of continuing love at face value, she had twisted his words to devastating effect. If Henry was so keen for the marriage to be found valid, she had said, how could he possibly object to her appeal to Rome? Surely it was the most natural thing in the world?

    Still worse from Henry’s point of view was his own response. The heat of the moment, his instinctive gallantry, the overwhelming sympathy of the audience for his wife – all drove him to give some sort of agreement to Catherine’s request.

    It is unclear just how far he went. Campeggio understood the exchange to mean that Henry had actually ‘granted [Catherine] full liberty to write and send messengers to Rome and to his Holiness [with her appeal]’. Catherine understood the same. But Henry, appalled at what he had done under pressure, later tried to introduce qualifications. It proved impossible. He had given his wife the word of a King, spoken in public, that she could appeal to Rome. He could never retract. She could act with a clear conscience.

    It was Catherine’s final and most effective coup against the Great Matter. She had knelt. But she had fought and won.

    There was nothing more for her to do in the court. 'She rose up, making a low courtesy to the King, and departed from thence.’ It was supposed that she would have returned to her former seat; instead 'she took her direct way out of the house, leaning, as she was wont always to do, upon the arm of her General Receiver called Mr Griffith [Richards]’. Seeing his prey escape, Henry ordered the crier to call her back. 'Catherine, Queen of England, come into the court!’ he cried. Richards said to her: 'Madam, ye be called again.’ 'On, on,’ she replied. 'It makes no matter, for this is no indifferent court for me; therefore I will not tarry. Go on your ways.’ Twice more the crier repeated his summons. But Catherine ignored him. She never returned.

- David Starkey, Six Wives

[jezabelofthenorth]

The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family airing on BBC 2 August 13th

[artandchocolate]

“Letters from Medea”- Salma Deera

[wedge-of-poetry]

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[stars-bean]

Christopher Robin (2018) dir. Marc Forster

[palaceoftears]

Magnificent Century Rewatch: One Picspam per Episode

Episode 1: New Home, New Rules

What is it to be turned? Where does one turn to? Where is that place? Is it possible to turn back or does destiny only point forward? Does the place you came from wait for you? Would you be able to see it? Would your heart be your compass to go back home by following your trails backwards? Or is one still seen only as a convert in every place one has come from, converted and changed, in every language and in every religion?

Is conversion not an ability but a necessity, Ibrahim?

[anneboleynqueen]

anne per episode - 1x08