#troubledblack

[sacredviperessss-blog]

“I don’t know whether to be proud or terrified. Perhaps both.” (couldn't resist sending my bb selene one)

“The women of the Victorian era did it, I don’t see why we can’t.” She twirled, slowly, as if she were already in the ballroom - she was used to such confinements. “Sacrificing mere breath for beauty - a trade that even the devil wouldn’t resist, wouldn’t you say?” 

[dolohxv-blog]

“Are you letting pride cloud your judgment?”

“Pride, dearest Andromeda, is a group of lions forming a social unit; or a bunch of Gryffindors chasing a ball of yarn.”

[sacredviperessss-blog]

"It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

“I do hope that neither of us are ever invariably saddened, then. I like to think that the things that I’ve adjusted are for the better, not for the worse.”