that is rather singular

dir. ken grieve

Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day had, of itself, and by itself, been very endurable--small, keen, bright little spots of positive enjoyment having come sparkling into the very middle of sorrows.

:: books of 2017 :: “Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.” 

HAMLET 1948 | dir. Laurence Olivier

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Claude Monet in shades of purple | “Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” Claude Monet

I have no doubt, Mr. Holmes, you can easily trace my client.  But I must ask you, as a point of honor, to refrain from doing so.  I think I can safely promise that.

2025 books - sense and sensibility by jane austen To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

 If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? 

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

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Costumes worn by Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987) dir. Kevin Sullivan

if all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

“i may have lost my heart, but not my self control.”

@janeuary-month 2026 l Day #24: Letters

i ought to be thy adam, but i am rather the fallen angel…