#testamentofyouthedit

[daisy-johnson]

Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (2014) dir. James Kent

[behindfairytales]

Alicia Vikander in Testament of Youth (2015) as Vera Brittain

[taronunwin]

[catherinesvalois]

Vera’s sweaters in Testament of Youth

[mermaeids]

“But I am coming back, dear. Let it always be ‘when’ and not ‘if’… The day will come when we shall live our roseate poem through — as we have dreamt it.”                        — Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain

“It would not be right for us to be given a vision of the Promised Land only to be told we were never to enter it. We shall dwell in it in the end, and it will seem all the fairer because we have wandered in the desert between then and now… Goodbye, my dear, and as much love as you wish.”                       — Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton

[fassmaan]

“Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one’s self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one’s gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left…”

[behindfairytales]

Alicia Vikander in Testament of Youth (2015) as Vera Brittain

[behindfairytales]

Alicia Vikander in Testament of Youth (2015) as Vera Brittain