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"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost". ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
[text ID: 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. / 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!']


David Bowie photographed by Steve Schapiro (New Mexico, summer 1975)


Murder on the Orient Express | Official Trailer 2: ↳ Sergei Polunin and Lucy Boynton as Count and Countess Andrenyi
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (via theclassicsreader)
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
— Neil Gaiman
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Little Women (dir. Gillian Armstrong, 1994)
“It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth.”
— Susanna Kaysen, from “Girl, Interrupted,” originally published c. 1993
when oscar wilde said 'i am tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said 'i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart' and when rilke said 'this heavy humanness'


midsommar - ari aster / the goldfinch - donna tartt
“We all have souls of different ages.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)
“Darkness, you are gentler than my lover,”
— Walt Whitman, from The Complete Poems of W. W.; “The Sleepers,”
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.” - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.” - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Nothing’s ever the same,“ she said. “Be it a second later or a hundred years. It’s always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.” - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
i identify as a bottle of red wine smashed on the tile floor of a grocery store