[qvotext]

I wanted to look ahead to where I was going, not back at what I was leaving, but then I turned anyway.

Jeannette Walls

[cinematicsweetheart]

What’s the science behind hating the summer because of the heat but getting very depressed in winter

[genesisfawn]

suggested photo memories be like remember when you bled out all of your innocence

[plathianswift]

[bpderanged]

What they say: "I love you."

What I hear: "I will only love you if you're easy to be around."

[prophetic-memory]

Mary Oliver, "Franz Marc's Blue Horses"

[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from an essay featured in The Decay of Lying and Other Essays

[zoirohs]

REBECCA (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[hot-chocolatedrinker]

[hot-chocolatedrinker]

And I realise I had loved her all this time on a random Thursday night and that I have nothing to do with that realisation.

[hot-chocolatedrinker]

I lie in bed, awake, looking at the plaster coming off the ceiling. There are soft, indistinguishable murmurs somewhere, beneath the intense ticking of the clock. I hear everything and nothing. Everything is black and white. I close my eyes, and when I open them again, it makes no difference for a while because all I can see is darkness, and I feel like it would last forever but then it doesn't. I look at the ceiling again.

[pansoph]

[el-im]

Joan Didion, writing about the shock that followed after the death of her husband, John.

[perfeqt]

“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of boys and girls into the fray of men and women, and expected to function as a grown-up when I never functioned very well as a kid.”

— Kelley York

[shattereddteacup]

Fingersmith (2005)

Dir. Aisling Walsh

Language: English

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Patti Smith: Woolgathering

[cleanlliness]

sometimes i wish i were religious so i could believe that everything will be okay in the end