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07/17/23 // i need my golden crown of sorrow / my bloody sword to swing

daphne greengrass. her voice curled up around its edges, the way paper does when you set it alight at the sides.

i am a warrior but i am a girl too.

You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.

female awesome meme; 5/10 disney ladies: snow white (snow white and the seven dwarfs) “remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.”

Mary Oliver, from “Sleeping in the forest”

Anya Taylor-Joy for Rouge Dior - The New Nudes

“Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing her she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with composure.” Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 43.

Margaret Qualley by Tom Schirmacher. - Elle UK April 2024

Oh my twitchy, witchy girl. I think you are so nice. I give you bowls of porridge. I give you bowls of ice… cream. I give you lots of kisses. I give you lots of hugs. But I never give you sandwiches with grease and worms and mung… beans.

arianna’s favourite movies ≡ pride and prejudice, dir. joe wright (2005) “miss elizabeth. i have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. these past months have been a torment. i came to rosings with the single object of seeing you… i had to see you. i have fought against my better judgment, my family’s expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. all these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony. ”

From a March 1954 Grace Kelly portrait session

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. March 1940 featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf: vol. V 1936-1941

You were my new dream.                                                                                                          And you were mine.

“it is spring again. the earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” 

“for to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, and to the flower a bee is a messenger of love.”

There’s nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, ’Be yourself.’ That’s not why I became an actress. That’s what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn’t become an actor so I could show you me.