thesummeriturnedprettyConrad was first, and I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It’s the kind of love that doesn’t know any better and doesn’t want to.
crumpling under the weight of two unanswered texts

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
stills from movieramabamba
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
― Little Women, Louisa May Alcott.
[these lines are so dear to me :)]
KIM TAE RI as NA HEE DO
TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY-ONE
2022, dir. Jung Ji Hyun
“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.”
– The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han
Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.
Jenny Han, from The Summer I Turned Pretty
“I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”
— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty