ERIN VEST All The Horses Of Iceland

Did you know I've never been skiing? I'd like to try one day, though.

Your name is no curse, Little Bird. I just like the taste of it.

that was the world he lived in with ronan lynch. the world he had built with ronan lynch. a world of limitless emotions and limited power. a world of tilting green hillsides, purple mountains, agonizing crushes, euphoric grudges, gasoline nights, adventuring days, gravestones and ditches, kisses and orange juice, rain on skin, sun in eyes, easy pain, hard-won wonder.

Giulia Maria Belli: L'Alcove du serpent.

Mothers who haunt the narrative in the CAPTIVE PRINCE TRILOGY

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

harper's bazaar 1890 by charles louis hinton.

Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air. — The Secret History, Donna Tartt.

Fox in the Reeds by Ohara Shoson (1930)

EMMA (2020) costume appreciation: 15/∞ (costume design by Alexandra Byrne)

Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us.

There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.