What a lovely way to burn...

I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks....\\ Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure — in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture exhausts us. We suffer. We destroy ourselves. And we just can’t stop.

[perrfectly]

“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”

— Dorianne Laux, “After Twelve Days of Rain” (via perrfectly)

[silly-bullshit-collector-deacti]

Slytherin Vintage Aesthetic

[justasimplefeeling]

[livesunique]

Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbria, Portugal,

Massimo Listri Photography

[lebleurenard-deactivated2021062]

✨Wherever you are and whatever you do, be in love✨

Moodboard for @petiite-abeille

[perrfectly]

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via perrfectly)

[magic-of-eternity]

[petalier]

@WeHeartIt /entry/31104651

[infinite-and-indecent]

“You were lying in the solitude of your own heart.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “The Message,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[yesterdaysprint]

Chattanooga Daily Times, Tennessee, November 26, 1936

[westeroes]

versailles / august 2019.

[katiemcgrath]

Gardens of Versailles, Versailles, France | August 2019

[thestrawberrynight]

being the lady, who lives in the castle, has a large library and a cellar with lots of bottles of wine, reads books, while sitting in the cosy chair, always wears lace dresses, settles vintage parties and mysteriously smiles at strangers

[fitswilliamdarcy]

“Oh! I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.” - Emma Woodhouse

[moodyinapinkbow]

Moodboard: Book - Pride And Prejudice. 

❝I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.❞

[vint-agge-xx]

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” -Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

[cheshirecat1707-blog]

  “Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry.  “And what is beauty?”    “Terror.” “And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”   “To live,” said Camilla.  “To live forever,” said Bunny. 

- Donna Tartt, The Secret History