Jane Austen, Emma. (via sweetrosefromhelstone)
‘My dearest Emma,’ said he, ‘for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour’s conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma - tell me at once. Say ‘No’ if it is to be said.’ - She could really say nothing. - ‘You are silent,’ he cried, with great animation; ‘absolutely silent!’ […]
‘I cannot make speeches, Emma:’ he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. - ‘If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. - You hear nothing but the truth from me. - I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. - Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover. - But you understand me. - Yes, you see, you understand my feelings - and will return them if you can. At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice.’
![“I do like practical research though. I remember I did a play about genetic cloning, ages ago. And I remember going to Cambridge University and sneaking into one of their science labs and putting on one of their lab coats and pretending I was a geneticist. [Laughs] No one batted an eyelid! But I love it because I was pretending to have a look; just observing.” [x]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3e836119532aeb740444c7dd6210b594/tumblr_mm4tpepwib1qbxtgwo1_500.png)
“I do like practical research though. I remember I did a play about genetic cloning, ages ago. And I remember going to Cambridge University and sneaking into one of their science labs and putting on one of their lab coats and pretending I was a geneticist. [Laughs] No one batted an eyelid! But I love it because I was pretending to have a look; just observing.” [x]
(via jmrichards)
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
(Source: peregrint, via lothlorienleaf)
Alison Mosshart (via unculturedmag)
I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.
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Richard’s words of wisdom](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9666b2cd1d89723157bd910690d656bb/tumblr_miat66Ghg81s3y0ego1_500.jpg)
Edmond Rostand (From Cyrano De Bergerac)
This is true, you know who I am thinking about. Well, most of you do ;)
A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul
— Vincent van Gogh
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
from:Elizabeth Gaskell, “North and South” - at the dinner party:
“Margaret’s attention was… called to her host; his whole manner… was so straightforward, yet simple and modest, as to be thoroughly dignified. Margaret thought she had never seen him to so much advantage… now, among his fellows… [he] was regarded… as a man of great force of character; of power in many ways. There was no need to struggle for their respect. He had it, and he knew it; and the security of this gave A FINE GRAND QUIETNESS TO HIS VOICE AND WAYS, which Margaret had missed before.”
