This Isn’t Lust. Lust Wants, Does The Obvious… Love Is Greedier. Love Wants Round-the-clock Care;

More to the point, they’ve yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can’t do.

What could be a more innocent or harmless pastime for a young girl than reading?

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via the-book-diaries)

lover of the light

Sun to Me, Zach Bryan // Kissing God Goodbye, June Jordan // Sunlight, Hozier // The Annunciation, Fra Angelico, tumblr user peternureyev // Like the Dawn, the Oh Hellos // The Apparition, James Tissot

Ok but can we talk about how "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dols is so scorose coded. Like just imagine Scorpius thinking about Rose while listeing to it. Also wonderwall

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via the-book-diaries)

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

Sarah Dessen, Just Listen (via the-book-diaries)

12/03/2018

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify that fact.

Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl (via the-book-diaries)

Regulus: "How mad would mum be if we shagged them?"

Sirius: "Oh she'd be thrilled."

stranger things 2 + text posts