wind in my hair, I was there

Weeping Willow (1919) by Claude Monet

— zadie smith, “middlemarch and everybody,” in changing my mind: occasional essays (via morgan-leigh)

there are few people whom i really love, and still fewer of whom i think well. the more i see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

Emma (2009), dir. Jim O'Hanlon // EMMA. (2020), dir. Autumn de Wilde

INDEPENDENCE & DEVOTION Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)

I can only read “dogs” and only see anything in one other. I see nothing in any other.

Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald