“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold
hate it here (realm of consciousness) going back to sleep
“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
I was thinking about you. Were you thinking about me too?
i have no idea how artists spend months, YEARS on paintings. if my drawing doesn't look exactly as i imagine it in the first 30 minutes i'm abandoning it forever
“‘You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, god! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’”
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir