never be ordinary.

A cheerful Tove Jansson and her cheerfully black kitty.

Fran Lebowitz, Pretend It's a City

Pretend It’s a City

The Hunger (1983) dir. Tony Scott

8 femmes (2002) dir. François Ozon

32|32 days of carol

Ammonite (2020)

-For crying out loud. Hey, Beth? Fuck you. Shaibel isn’t the only one who kept after you all these years. I know how you lost to Benny Watts in Vegas and then beat him in Ohio. I read the papers. Even on a group trip into town, I spent my ice cream money on the damn chess magazine had your ugly face on it. For a time, I was all you had. And for a time, you was all I had. We weren’t orphans. Not as long as we had each other. You understand what i’m saying? I’m not your guardian angel. I’m not here to save you. Hell, I can barely save me. I’m here because you need me to be here. That’s what family does. That’s what we are.

Alma was not pathetic, she was stuck. There’s a difference.

That’s how we met. A bookshop in Paris. A woman introduces herself as Gertrude and tells me I do not want to purchase the book I’m perusing, as it’s impossibly bleak and, in the end, the protagonist is murdered! I spent my next decades hiding what I was reading, as she couldn’t help but spoil the ending of every novel or night at the theatre.

And I’m sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it.

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) | 1x02 “The Pupil”

“I’m coming to understand, I might be the kind of person… The kind of woman, who enjoys the company of other women. If you take my meaning.”