the valley of

The next morning, she’d been called to Tante Heleen’s parlour. She’d been sure another beating was coming or worse, but instead Kaz Brekker had been standing there, leaning on his crow-head cane, waiting to change her life.

Hell, no. That little guy from Brooklyn who was too dumb not to run away from a fight. I’m following him.

There are things you wish for before big moments. I wish my friends were here. God. I wish my parents were different. I wish there was someone who got what was happening, and could just look at me and tell me we weren’t crazy. That we weren’t being stupid. Someone to say, “I’m proud of you. And I got your back. No matter what.”

#married

+ BONUS:

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.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

I think it would be very hard on younger sisters, not to have their share of amusement because the elder is still unmarried. And to be kept back on such a motive! It would hardly encourage sisterly affection.