Love is awful! It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. Makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself. Distance yourself from the other people in your life. Makes you selfish. Makes you creepy! Makes you obsessed with your hair. Makes you cruel! Makes you say and do things you never thought you would do! It’s all any of us want and it’s hell when we get there! So, no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own.
FLEABAG | 2.06
The more despair I endure in life, the more I love Frodo. I’m just. I’m so glad that Tolkien wrote him like that. He was a hero and it broke him. He was given too much to carry. The circumstances were dire, everyone was doing the best they could, and Frodo tried so hard, for such a good cause, and he…broke. And the narrative has pity for him, the characters show him kindness. Even after victory, his hurts did not heal, and it isn’t considered his fault. He must go to the undying lands, to seek out peace there. In universe, he is forgiven for being human - don’t be pedantic - and his great torment is recognized. He fell. He could not have done it alone. He is still a hero.
And, I think that’s important.
You do know what I’m talking about, don’t you? You knew before I did.
Atonement, Dir. Joe Wright
“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden Of Eden (via thehistoryoflanguage)
SAOIRSE RONAN AND TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET AS JO AND LAURIE IN LITTLE WOMEN
The worst fate is to live my life without you in it.