“I missed only Lila, Lila who didn’t answer my letters. I was afraid of what was happening to her, good or bad, in my absence. It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.”
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Palazzo Farnese (x)
Born A Crime (?), Trevor Noah // Portrait of a Bedouin girl, Leopold Carl Müller // A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
lyanna stark || elia martell || sansa stark || arya stark || alicent hightower || jaehaera targaryen || cersei lannister || myrcella baratheon || joanna lannister || aemma arryn || catelyn stark || sansa stark (2) || margaery tyrell || rhaena targaryen, daughter of aenys i || arianne martell || aerea targaryen || obara sand
“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”
—Marguerite Duras, The Lover.
MBF Characters As Quotes Pt. 2: Lila & Stefano
me on my annual mbf series reread
snoopy reads my brilliant friend
Old Viking cave dwelling and farm, Rutshellir Caves, Iceland
Job Savelsberg
"She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way." - Elena Ferrante
largely inspired by this post by my beloved @elenagrec and this discussion i've had with @prismelit
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853)
Udsigt gennem tre buer i Colosseums tredje stokværk
I’m obsessed
Photos of Ethel taken in Paris by fans via her Instagram story
Photos by hollysdigital and groovymochi