odi et amo et excrucio

Anfiteatro Flavio (by viaggionelmondo)

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:23:55 +0200

Anfiteatro Flavio (by viaggionelmondo)

"I am too complex. In my case something always remains floating, unattached."

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:21:47 +0200

“I am too complex. In my case something always remains floating, unattached.”

- Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:35:03 +0200

And then there’s this guy.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:21:28 +0200

And then there’s this guy.

I really love Sansas name, because if you translate it to Swedish, (to) Sansa (yourself) is to calm down and be balanced, and Sansa(d) is to be sensible and composed. And Stark literally means strong. So Sansa Stark is a balanced, sensible and strong girl. (Yes, I like to pretend that g.r.r.m knew this and thought of it.)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:18:33 +0200

EXCELLENT

Franz Kafka’s signature in a letter to Milena Jesenská. It...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:59:41 +0200

Franz Kafka’s signature in a letter to Milena Jesenská. It reads:

~~Franz~~ wrong, F wrong, ~~Yours~~ wrong
nothing more, calm, deep forest

Prague, July 29, 1920.

abystle: Crucifixion: Nailing to the Cross, XI, Adolf...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:52:03 +0200

abystle:

Crucifixion: Nailing to the Cross, XI, Adolf Lachman, 1998.

queencersei: Lannister Meme | Eight dynamics﹄ [4/8] Jaime and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:26:23 +0200

queencersei:

Lannister Meme | Eight dynamics
﹄ [4/8] Jaime and Tyrion

“Oh, you’ve earned more than that, Jaime. You and my sweet sister and our loving father, yes, I can’t begin to tell you what you’ve earned. But you’ll have it, that I swear to you. A Lannister always pays his debts.”

inritus: Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929 - Photographed by André...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:18:36 +0200

inritus:

Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929 - Photographed by André Kertész

queenofwrath: Lannister Meme /Eight Dynamics [1/8]→ Cersei and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:39:17 +0200

queenofwrath:

Lannister Meme /Eight Dynamics [1/8]→ Cersei and Joffrey

“He was all I had once. Before Myrcella was born. I used to 
spend hours looking at him. His wisps of hair, his tiny little 
hands and feet. He was such a jolly little fellow. You always 
hear the terrible ones were terrible babies. ‘We should have 
known, even then we should have known.’ It’s nonsense. Whenever
he was with me, he was happy. And no one can take that away from
me — not even Joffrey.”

abigailecters: literature meme: movements [2/2] The “Lost...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:36:27 +0200

abigailecters:

literature meme: movements [2/2]

The “Lost Generation” was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.

In A Moveable Feast, which was published after both Hemingway and Stein were dead and after a literary feud that lasted much of their life, Hemingway reveals that the phrase was actually originated by the garage owner who serviced Stein’s car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car in a way satisfactory to Stein, the garage owner shouted at the boy, “You are all a “génération perdue.” Stein, in telling Hemingway the story, added, “That is what you are. That’s what you all are … all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.” This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.

glarewolf: "She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:18:59 +0200

glarewolf:

"She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death."

VOLCHITSA; for warrior queens with two husbands, for human girls who chain life in their basements, for the ones that will always choose to see

_{01. a bird without feathers - ramin djawadi | 02. black mountain - isobel campbell | 03. white elephant coat - school of seven bells | 04. skin - grimes | 05. o master - susanne sundfør | 06. frozen - delain | 07. sleep - soap & skin | 08. wicked blood - sea wolf | 09. cruel - st. vincent | 10. shivers - zola jesus | 11. weights & measures - dry the river | 12. nashua - the antlers | 13. atonement - bloc party | 14. oblivion - m83}

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"War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:13:43 +0200

“

War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle.

For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they’ve been gutted by an axe.

They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now, They take the wound, and when that’s still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.

If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron half helm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the small folk whose land they’re fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it’s just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don’t know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they’re fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad in all steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world.

And the man breaks.

”

- Septon Meribald, A Feast for Crows (via thehoundking)

“Don’t doubt my courage your grace. I match for any man.”

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:05:45 +0200

_{“Don’t doubt my courage your grace. I match for any man.”}

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:37 +0200

endless list of films with gorgeous visuals → Hercules...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:59:34 +0200

endless list of films with gorgeous visuals → Hercules (1997)

“I know every mile,
Will be worth my while,
I would go most anywhere,
to feel like I belong.”

VALAR MORGHULIS

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:56:05 +0200

VALAR MORGHULIS

jaimecerseilibrary: He is seventeen and infamous, and tomorrow...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:46:14 +0200

jaimecerseilibrary:

He is seventeen and infamous, and tomorrow she will be queen.

She hears the stories first; when she next sees him, standing tall and golden in the light of spring, he is no longer the young Lion of Lannister, only Kingslayer. The title rises in whispers behind his back—and hers, but Cersei has ears and eyes, and she can see and hear how they all look at Jaime now, fear and contempt to obscure the old awe.

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Holliday Grainger 4/4

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:40:46 +0200

Holliday Grainger 4/4

{32/100} Anna Karenina (2012)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:37:15 +0200

{32/100} Anna Karenina (2012)