and don't be afraid

Forget pulling all-nighters and chugging coffee until it’s practically coursing through your veins. You know what gets me hyped up? Earl Grey tea on slow sunny mornings after a good night’s sleep. Submitting an assignment early, knowing you’ve completed it to the best of your ability. Reading for pleasure. That feeling of limbless relaxation after a good workout. Unearthing all your buried interests and falling in love with them over and over again.

Repeat after me: success is not suffering. Success is nOT-

Penguin Classic Redesigns

A city of stone. Edinburgh, Scotland.

kissing a boy? running your hands up and down his sides? while he’s sleepy? and calling him pet names? just to hear him giggle? paradise.

it’s all “accidental hand touch” this and “brief longing gaze” that, where’s my support at for “reaching up and fixing someone’s collar for them” crew??

the intimacy disguised as helpfulness! the lingering contact! the optional subdued “you look nice” as they stand too close!!

expand your pining vocabulary people

The Goldfinch second trailer

endless list of my favorite musicals: mamma mia! 

Paris knows how to make an entrance

EMILY BRONTË, Wuthering Heights

MARY SHELLEY, Frankenstein

Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) 1962, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

crush - richard siken // how to draw a horse - emma hunsinger // sehnsucht - german word

read in 2018: The Goldfinch (2014) — Donna Tartt

raise a glass to freedom something they can never take away

lets bring back romanticism im tired of trying to be rational. were all dumb and we all want love