~I Dance On The Glass, We Dance In Each Other's Eyes And In The Madness I Push You Away Because You Recognized

in my mind Henry finished the translation of Paradise Lost and Richard found it in the glove compartment of Henry's car after his death

*girl on the brink of self destruction* i miss academia

no more "in my humble opinion", from now on it's "from my grandiose and objectively correct deductions".

surely this fun coffee drink will save me from my immeasurable exhaustion

Happy End of Finals Week and the Semester to those celebrating!

Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

23 august. Something is not right. There's a soul on my windowsill.

so unfortunately college isn’t just about performing ancient greek rituals with your friends

Richard Papen, while freezing in a fucking mandolin boutique during the rigid winter of Vermont: California dreamin'... (California... dreamin'...) on such a winter's day...

day 129 of missing henry winter