One Has To Kill A Few Of Ones Natural Selves To Let The Rest Grow A Very Painful Slaughter Of Innocents.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Henry Sidgwick (via feellng)

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

We dream of each other and keep it a secret

it is so upsetting listening to so many males talk about all of the times they have gone on road trips alone and slept in their cars alone or on the side of the road, or travelled overseas alone and slept on the floor of strangers homes or in parks or at hostels and they appear to have such freedom in that they are able to be alone in ways that females, unfortunately, cannot…and there is an ignorance surrounding this in that these boys never seem to comprehend just how fortunate they are that strange people and unfamiliar places and the dark of night are not their enemies but rather exciting, promising things