This Week I’ve Been Reading A Lot And Doing Little Work. That’s The Way Things Ought To Be. That’s

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (via the-book-diaries)

Barbara Gordon: Don't be upset because I bitch-slapped you with intelligence.

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

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

When crows remember people who wronged them and hold grudges, it’s ‘intelligent’ and ‘really cool’ but when I do it I’m ‘petty’ and ‘need to move on’.

Sirius Black (via incorrectmarauderquotes)

and when hozier said, “my life was a storm since i was born, how could I fear any hurricane?”

i wonder if he is regulus black reincarnated

I cannot wait to publish the chapters of my fic that give these vibes. Currently wishing I could just mass upload the whole thing.

Scorpius: This is my gran, Narcissa.

Rose: Pleasure.

Narcissa: Well, hello there!

Narcissa: Now, do you prefer being called Rose or Satan's Mistress? Because we've heard it both ways.

bel.la__

are u joking me

I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via the-book-diaries)

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself …

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via the-book-diaries)