last book that I…
bought: the secret history, donna tartt
borrowed: letters home, sylvia plath
was gifted: infinite jest, david foster wallace
started: uno, nessuno e centomila, l. pirandello
finished: song of achilles, madeline miller
didn’t finish: emma, jane austen
last book that I;
bought: stone blind, natalie haynes
borrowed: the collected poems of sylvia plath
was gifted: a set of antique 1830-1850s novels
started: elektra, jennifer saint
finished: a thousand ships, natalie haynes
gave 5 stars to: tales from the estate, sadie davidson
gave 2 stars to: war of the worlds, h. g. wells
didn't finish: if we were villains, m. l. rio
tagging anyone who wants to take part
ACHILLES AND THE LONDON BOY:
Photo Board
Center: James Leicester
Left: Diana Mayor
Center: Henrik Olsen
Left: Theo Fraser, Center: Alexander FitzDonald
Center: Alexander FitzDonald
Left: Theo Fraser, Right: Alexander FitzDonald
Left: James Leicester, Left Center: Henrik Olsen, Right Center: Theo Fraser, Right: Alexander FitzDonald
Back: Diana Mayor, Front: Alexander FitzDonald
Left: Alexander FitzDonald, Center: Theo Fraser, Right: Diana Mayor
Left: Alexander FitzDonald, Center: Diana Mayor, Left: Theo Fraser
Alexander’s golden hair shone in the glass sunlight, a moment so perfect it seemed it could fracture at the smallest breath. His eyes looked like green crystals, flicks of blue emerging in the sun.
Alexander didn’t notice this, but Theo did, gazing up at the window. He looked back down at his tattered copy of the Iliad, wondering what book Alexander was reading. The sun was setting, making the world look like a haze of pink and purple. Theo looked at the cotton candy clouds, unaware that Alexander was looking right down at him, sitting on the bench next to the road. Alexander closed his book, Jane Austen’s Emma, and smiled a little half-smile, looking at the way the orange sky reflected off of Theo’s eyes. Those eyes flicked to his, Alexander turning away a few seconds too late, the grin disappearing from his face. Theo’s smile, on the other hand, only widened. Alexander chided himself for his incompetence and looked over at the door of his room, still seeing those gilded curls. He blinked quickly, trying to get them out of his vision. He looked back down at the sidewalk; the boy had gone from the wooden bench. He forced himself to look back at his book.
Ahem, I may or may not have read far too many novels recently. How do I know this? I have now developed a slight crush on my academic rival in school. Goodness.
what do you do when the love you thought would last forever just walks away?
what do you do when you know this time its you, its you, its your fault, you chased him away?
what do you do when they hurt you but you know you hurt them even more?
what do you do when you try your best but your best isnt enough?
what do you do when the good ones hurt you?
do you just move on?
do you ever move on?
does it scar you?
do you forgive them?
do you forgive yourself?
R.H Sin
because you were only 5 when you learnt the dark was something you should be afraid of and that night, a child found god in the bathroom light
when you turned 11, someone said you were too loud, too brash, too annoying for a girl; they made you think you’d never make it in this world
then came your 13th birthday when you realised that your mother would only love the person you could become for her, so you made yourself smaller and smaller until you ceased to exist outside of your own mind, screaming “are you happy now, mother?” but no voice comes out because you can’t be too loud, remember?
at 15, you hated yourself for not being able to fight without crying (you still do) so you don’t let anyone in that can hurt you
and now that you’re 17, you’ve waited for summer long enough to know it will never arrive for a person who says so little of what she means.
// you’ve been 8, on your way to 18, and barely survived the years in between
THE ARCHIVES
Poems
A Poem About Rain
Icarus Also Flew
An Ode to Rays of Sun
To learn that
Jealousy
Eyes
Women
A Pretty Little Message to Myself
She
An Ode to Pools of Moonlight
A Poem of Many Poems
If I Don’t Love You
Achilles and the London Boy
Sunlit Gold
A Flower-Scented Morning
Hungover on Tears
A Magnolia Tree Kiss
“What is happiness?”
Giulia’s New Book
Meeting Diana
Personal
Giulia Has a Crush
Linguistics, My Beloved
Last Book That I…
Flowers and Vanilla and Sunlight
Mornings
Goodbye, Achilles and the London Boy :(
Book-Related
Sense and Sensibility
Butterfly Bookmark
Emma
History Class Advice
Giulia’s Predictions 1
Giulia’s Predictions 2
The Secret History
Camilla Macaulay
Quotes
A Book I’ll Never Write
To define is to limit, darling.
Books and Forests
The Secret History
“Goodness, you magpies.”
“It’s nothing.”
Everything was bathed in celestial light.
“But how,” said Charles…
That was a cozy night, a happy night…
“Are you sure you’re all right?”
My heartbeat trembled in my fingertips…
The wind was up…
Shades of Eton
Unworldly airs of ancient romance that…
The Iliad
Anguish gripped Achilles…
Other
I Loved My Friend
It isn’t Spring until…
Vive vita tua, nam morte tua morieris.
Photos
Books and Tea
Notes Scrawled in Margins
Tweed Blazer Outfit
Books and Flowers
Academy on the Hill
Home Screen
Italian Dialects Alignment Chart
Good Morning, May
The Secret History
Giulia on Pinterest
Pink Flower
Joseph Leyendecker Illustration
Joseph Leyendecker Illustration II
Photo Boards
Achilles and the London Boy
First Photo Board
First Photo Board, Labeled
ArtBreeder Photo Board