she was impossible

“Our conscious minds are very spread out. We worry about the past. We worry about the future. We label. And all of that stuff just makes us very separate. What I’m trying to do is just quiet it down. Put that brain down from time to time and hope those periods of quiet and stillness get longer. When you do that, what rises from the mist is a kind of surrendering. You’re more connected as opposed to being separate. A lot of the questions about destiny or fate or purpose or any of that stuff—it’s not like you get answers. You just realize you didn’t need the questions.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, ”Letter to Isabelle Amorous”, Feb 1920 (via thelovejournals)

there’s a special place in hell reserved just for me

it’s called the throne

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry + 7 years of lessons ⚡

“I don’t care!” Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. “I’ve had enough, I’ve seen enough, I want out, I want it to end, I don’t care anymore!”

“You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

Henny-rose

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

If I see a situation pointed south, I can’t ignore it. Sometimes I wish I could.

Alicia Vikander for W Magazine / Pirelli Calender. Photographed by Peter Lindbergh. “Peter really has the ability - I can see in the photos - that he’s so relaxed and he also makes me so at ease and comfortable. All nerves kind of go away and he has so much heart and so much energy and so much fun. It’s a bit of magic.”