ides of fall

promise?           promise.

Stevie Nicks, 1976

Stranger Things Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human-  the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

“welcome to the real world. it sucks. you’re gonna love it.”

Maybe you didn’t notice, but I’m pretty good with a bow and arrow.

And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been.

I am calling post-it, Zola, Bailey, the tumors on the wall, ferryboat scrub caps. I thought D.C. was everything. I was wrong. You… You are everything. I love you and I’m not going to stop loving you. I can’t live without you. I don’t want to live without you, and I’m going to do everything in my power to prove it.

BREAKING: Legendary artist Prince has died at 57

Firsts.