Yesterday I Was Talking With A Friend Of Mine About What To Write In A Dating App Bio And The Only Things

might fuck around and only wear tweed, turtlenecks and oxfords, drink worrying amounts of coffee, leave my apartment only to sit in a small cafe and read paperbacks, have a close friendship with underlying homoeroticism,,

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

day 129 of missing henry winter

The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and

I think we should talk more about the fact that Henry is basically the personification of the "beauty is terror" quote – hence, the concept of the Sublime. Richard found him to be the most beautiful out of the whole group – not in the in the literal sense, obviously, but in the sense that Henry was the one he looked up to, admired and eventually idolized the most out of them. Even after the murder and all that happened afterwards because of him, after finding out how terrifying he could actually be, Richard still couldn't let go of his initial impression of him, and kept on thinking fondly of him despite everything he'd done – and so did all the others. Henry kept them all together, then wronged them so many times, and in the end he still left them all with that lingering ghost of him they were never able to get rid of.

late nights in the country house

flowers are slowly dying in my room

I'm rotting with them in dirty water

invariably for centuries

invariably for centuries.

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i love my erratic and enigmatic henry winter

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

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