gilded

for just a moment, i thought i felt her waver. but then she looked away. “i know you did,” she said. “but it’s not enough.”

Skins (2007)

'the atlas six' & 'the atlas paradox' by @olivieblake as penguin classics

The Fellowship of the Ring | Three Is Company

beauty was your armor. fragile stuff, all show. but what's inside you? that's steel. it's brave and unbreakable. and it doesn't need fixing

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Crows as Tarot Cards

@emiliadicarlos: make me choose between romeo & juliet or [ a midsummer nights dream ]

“women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. and they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. i’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”

A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches.

❝i want to do something splendid, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after i'm dead. i don't know what, but i'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.❞ ― louisa may alcott, little women.

“for us, everything was a performance.” a small, private smile catches me off guard and i glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “everything poetic.”

This is true love. Do you think this happens every day?

the atlas six by @olivieblake

for @deadpoets & @harrcwing <3 

FAVORITE LIT CHARACTERS:   camilla macaulay.