Evenstar;

when margaret atwood said “i'm sorry there is so much pain in this story” and richard siken said “there is no other version of this story” and mary oliver said “you don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway, i don’t want to tell it”

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Simone Ashley by Petros for Net A Porter Magazine: The Edit, March 22, 2022

this blog is my diary it's my sketchbook it's stuff on my bedroom wall it's a pdf it's an unpublished novel it's a collage. it's all of these things

NEW YEAR NEW GIFS, DAY 22: BLACK AND WHITE ↳ SHADOW AND BONE + film noir | insp.

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Milton Greene for her Broadway debut as Gigi (1951)

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?… If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

this is so embarrassing. i want to love & be loved & drink really nice tea & eat really nice pasta & not feel like the loneliness is a part of me anymore. i want a herb garden

Anya Taylor-Joy; by Camila Falquez for Vogue Mexico; 2021

You may have needed me, but I never needed you.

[1/?] Favourite moments from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit was very well-to-do, and his name was Baggins.

SHADOW AND BONE  1.04 - Otkazat'sya

inej abstains from killing until a moment where kaz is in danger like. do you think she internalised any of that, the idea that love sometimes runs counter to faith? and then she meets alina who tells her she likes her hand with a knife in it. violence is next to godliness.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Lily Collins | The Laterals October 2020