Mother, My Hands Are Not My Own

D A R K — 1.04 Doppelleben (Double Lives)

D A R K  —   1.01  S e c r e t s.

you think i’d let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? no fucking way. he doesn’t get to win. my cute, charming, salt-of-the-earth missouri guy. he needed to learn. grown-ups work for things. grown-ups pay. grown-ups suffer consequences.

Okay Ames, I don’t want you to take this the wrong way. But you gotta calm the “f train” down.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

What makes a place feel like home? Is it warmth and familiarity? Some idealized, make-believe TV version of the American Dream? Is it love and acceptance… or is it simple safety?

I can’t change your fate, but I can help you meet it. We begin our journey to the border tonight. Midnight. 

insp.

Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Stranger Things: a very serious show about the paranormal

Ex Machina (2015) Dir. Alex Garland

Alicia Vikander photographed by Alasdair McLellan for British Vogue - August 2016

What kind of preacher are you? The lousy kind.