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All my life, when I thought of my future, that was what I pictured. Not a career. The things I thought would come with it. Happiness, love, safety.

“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever… And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon." ― George Orwell (1984)

“clever girl. you play with fire because you want to be burnt.”

It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.

While visiting my parents I reorganised my childhood bookshelf! My dream is to buy a cute little cottage so I could combine these books in Ireland with the ones I have in France, and then have a mini library 🌈📚

I recognize that sound. It's the sound of holding on to a cliff by the edge of your nails. The sound of barely containing a pain so immense that to look at it, to raise your own flesh and examine what's beneath, is to risk falling into a darkness you know you'll never escape.

“Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game—and you have to win.”

FINNICK ODAIR

Nina was twenty-five now. And that felt young to her because she was so much older than twenty-five in her soul. She had always had a hard time reconciling the facts of her life with the truth of it. Twenty-five but she felt forty. Married but she was alone. Childless and yet, hadn’t she raised children?

❝ May the odds be ever in your favour! ❞ 

Happy birthday to His Royal Highness Prince Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor ✨💕

i dont think ill ever stop thinking about this part of the amber spyglass… like lyra being a protagonist who like every children’s fantasy protagonist just excels at this special thing that no one else can do and takes it for granted throughout the whole series and then right at the end when she needs it most she can’t do it anymore.. and this angel telling her that even if she ever gets that ability back it will never be easy or effortless again…. sometimes you grow up and you completely lose the physical and mental wellbeing you took for granted when you were a kid and every day is a struggle and philip pullman reaches out from the pages of his dark materials and grabs you by the neck and says HAVING TO WORK HARD FOR THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE TAKE FOR GRANTED DOESN’T MEAN YOU GET TO FEEL SORRY FOR YOURSELF AND IN FACT A LIFE FULL OF EFFORT WILL BE MORE MEANINGFUL TO YOU IN THE END EVEN IF IT ALSO FILLS YOU WITH GRIEF

@mossyshadows​ exactly. exactly

@thisbusymonster​ hell yeah