[zika-zuleika]

Every writer’s painstakingly propagated individuality consists, after all, in the idiosyncratic way in which he conceals his faults.

Franz Kafka

[zika-zuleika]

You make a great mistake if you think you can be romantic without religion.

—Monsignor Darcy, This Side of Paradise

[zika-zuleika]

an essay on the roots of Romanticism and how what they’re really looking for is the Church

[zika-zuleika]

to say to the Eiger,

“I will survive you”

[rosieandthemoon]

By Maxfield Parrish, 1913

[simena]

[zika-zuleika]

The young will is crippled by its own whims

—Maria Augusta Trapp

[zika-zuleika]

a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience

—Maria Augusta von Trapp

[zika-zuleika]

If He was victorious, we shall be so one day too, because He said so.

—Maria Augusta von Trapp

[zika-zuleika]

You make a great mistake if you think you can be romantic without religion.

—Monsignor Darcy, This Side of Paradise

[zika-zuleika]

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

[zika-zuleika]

You know, what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

[gentle-cottage]

[gardenbicycle]

i <3 my tumblr followers

[zika-zuleika]

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

[kosemsultanim]

Things I Watched In 2019: Victoria (Season 3)

Do you know what destiny means? It means that there is something in your life you must do. And my destiny and yours is to rule this country. Think of it as a little flame inside you. Nothing can put it out.

[madeleineengland]

Victoria's random hairstyle (season 1)

[claramaximoff]

Victoria and Albert greeting their children

[theodorafrompluto]

The First Easter (1896)

by Arthur Hughes