The Seven Year Itch (1955) dir. Billy Wilder
Red Doc>, Anne Carson
[ID: To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.]
Requested by lovely anon.
“She had come to be a thing of spirit only, she wasn’t altogether real, she didn’t altogether live, she was committed to the darkness, she was already in the world of shades,”
— Charlotte Mew, from The Selected Shorter Fiction; “A White Night,”
Sophocles, Elektra (trans. by Anne Carson)
Ritesh Rajan as Farran in Russian Doll (1x04)
I was a fool. I’m privileged to call you my wife.
I’m privileged to call you my wife.
(Lorenzo and Clarice moments requested by anonymous)
You are aware that our mothers have spoken of marriage. I’m aware. I beg you, look favorably on the proposal. Because your family is powerful and mine has noble blood?
“She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.”
— Nikita Gill (via thequotejournals)
H.D., from “The Flowering of the Rod″
Gillian Flynn, Dark Places (via mythaelogy)
give me a ‘we’re mercenaries and we’ve hooked up once in a lifetime ago but you left before i woke up and actually handcuffed me to the bed and stole the files i was paid to get. now, we were hired by the same dude and we have to work together and there’s a lot of sexual tension and banter and me threatening to shoot you once an hour but you know you’re still pretty hot so maybe we should hook up?’ plot. i will cry for this.
“…the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy.”
— Tennessee Williams, from “Sweet Bird Of Youth,” first published c. 1962