Partners In Life

because it’s 645 days later and i’m still not over this

↪ There are some people who are so much a part of us, they’ll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground. Our North Star. And the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us… always. 

                                                  Late Night - Margaret Atwood May 07, 2012 → Castle and Beckett finally crossed the line and started a new chapter in their lifes. #5yrs of Always.

New pictures of the 2012 EW Photoshoot by Yu Tsai.

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(photos by pete souza, official white house photographer)

thank you.

Most of us are now familiar with her story: born and raised in a blue-collar family on the South Side of Chicago, endured an hour-and-a-half commute to attend the city’s first magnet high school, worked several jobs and borrowed a lot of money to get herself through Princeton, then Harvard Law. But what I didn’t know was how tentative and insecure she was in the beginning. […] She recounts the story about being told that Princeton “was reaching too high. That the schools I was applying to were too … much for me.” You can still hear the disgust in her voice all these years later. “And then I got there and I looked around and thought: I’m just as smart as these people! What were they thinkin’? So there are a lot of people who will try to step on your confidence based on their assumptions about who they think you are.” A murmur of recognition ripples through the audience. “For all of you sitting here, with those doubts in your head—because those whispers of doubt, they stay with you for a very long time—ignore them. I still carry that with me today, as First Lady of the United States, because there are people who don’t think I should be doing that either.” [x]

stay safe everyone <3