Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

there’s nothing more romantic than someone choosing to learn you. flipping the pages in your soul delicately and digesting your chapters with an open mind no matter how difficult or uncomfortable some of your moments read, treating each bookmark with no judgment, but pure love.

Joan Didion’s collection of books by Ernest Hemingway, from her estate sale

"What are you doing here?" "I heard there was a poetry reading."

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016) dir. The Russo Brothers

us - gracie abrams (feat. taylor swift) // cowboy like me - taylor swift

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel

Legally Blonde (2001) dir. Robert Luketic

Joan Didion writes, in On Keeping a Notebook, that the purpose of keeping a notebook, or a journal for that matter, isn’t because you simply want keep a personal record of things; but because you want to remember the person you were at that specific moment. we write things down on our notebook/journal/diary (whichever one of those you keep) because we want to remember. we want to remember what specific people meant to us on a particular day or hour. or minute. we want to remember our first impression of something (or of doing that something), possibly of someone, too. sometimes we think we’ll “always remember” important events: “I’ll make a mental note of that” etc etc. but in reality everything is fleeting. so Didion says write it down. keep a journal. that way, people, places, and certain events will always be there in case you ever want to come back to them sometime in the future. but also so that they don’t ever haunt you.

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815–1910), "Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily", 1847