glossing over silver lines, with memories of forgotten times. how i wish i could go back re-walk the path we could together tread. i so miss the running red. seems i'm halfway done but i feel so dead.
Donna Tartt was right.
I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
Because I need to have an obsession to feel alive. To act. To do. To create.
Madness fuels me. It pushes me to live. It takes me apart and puts back together like puzzle pieces.
I need to feel obsessed or I don’t feel at all.
move over brat summer it's time for richard papen winter
“Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?”
– The Secret History
so unfortunately college isn’t just about performing ancient greek rituals with your friends
Calypso: The stars are beautiful tonight.
Odysseus: You know who else is beautiful?
Calypso (blushing): Who?
Odysseus: Penelope.
why is Richard sickly for like 95% of the book he's always complaining about being exhausted and faint and nauseous and riddled with headaches and his solution is LETS HAVE MORE PILLS AND ALCOHOL??
LIKE SIR PLEASE JUST EAT A VEGETABLE IM BEGGING U
you fucking loser those are butterflies
does rereading the secret history count as classics revision because i have an exam tomorrow but all i can remember is that tiryns kind of looks like a limp dick