i die first

I’m a connoisseur of roads. I’ve been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world. My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

Do or do not. There is no try.

Favorite Quotes (The Song of Achilles)

— “it was a bright cold day in april, and the clocks were striking thirteen”

Photographed by Pyotr Vedenisov, 1910s

“and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun”

Sappho, If Not, Winter (tr. by Anne Carson)

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

by Nina Stajner

↳ Queen Visenya Targaryen was the older of King Aegon I Targaryen’s sisters. She was also one of his two wives, the other being her sister Rhaenys. Aegon’s eldest sister was a passionate, temperamental woman. She was both stern and sensual, more voluptuous than her sister, more passionate, but with a dark and unforgiving side. Even those who loved her best found her stern, serious and unforgiving.  She wielded the Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister.

A Series of Unfortunate Events  — Dedications

e.e. cummings, from “you shall above all things be glad and young” (via theclassicsreader)

There is a woman inside you who fights against this injustice, as your mother did - who struggles to make things right. She has a name.

Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country (via theclassicsreader)