She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married
Hamnet - Maggie OβFarrell
There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious. // The Secret History, Donna Tartt
"We long for the lost"
-november-rage
πΎππππ πππππ,Β π΄ ππππππππ (π·πΎπΎπ·)
βA morbid longing for the picturesque at all costsβ
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
the poet and his muse.
dedicated to my lovely dorian.
byΒ Rikki Austin
βI remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mindβ
β Edgar Allen Poe
dead poets society (1989, written by tom schulman)