all’s fair in love and poetry.

winona ryder for interview magazine, 1993

*trying to flirt* haha i bet ur guts look soooo pretty i bet u have the greatest bones ever. ur beating heart would be so sexy to hold in my hands i would be so gentle with it. why are you running

lara jean song ♡ if love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

Taylor Swift Plays the Word-Association Game

© from amber’s desk in the tortured poets department

Carey Mulligan as Jenny Mellor in An Education (2009) dir. Lone Scherfig

FRIENDS (1994-2004) — 1.24, “The One Where Rachel Finds Out”

the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

You a Heather? No, I’m a Veronica.

But I ran away from it my whole life. I refused to give Santa a Christmas list because I didn’t want to depend on any man for anything. COMMUNITY S03E11 “URBAN MATRIMONY AND THE SANDWICH ARTS”

[ID: Four grayscale gifs of Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit; Beth is sitting on her bed wearing a black dress with a white collar speaking to someone off-screen. 1: She looks to the left, saying, “It’s an entire world of just 64 squares.” 2: She looks down, still speaking: “I feel…safe in it.” 

3: Fiddling with a trophy in her hands and still looking down, she continues, “I can control it; I can dominate it.” 4: Beth says, “And it’s predictable” while she holds up the trophy as a camera flashes, taking her picture. She continues after her picture has been taken, “So if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.” End ID.]

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT: 01x03, “DOUBLED PAWNS”

“Do you think you saw the king as a father and the queen as a mother? I mean, one to attack, one to protect?” “They’re just pieces. Besides, it was the board I noticed first.”

Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what you’re telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country is bored! There’s no life in it, or color, or fun! It’s probably just as well the Russians are going to drop a nuclear bomb on us any day now. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my… Jew, and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun! It’s not enough to educate us anymore Ms. Walters. You’ve got to tell us why you’re doing it.

The way Beth’s opponents always end up helping her and train her for the next bigger stronger opponent, this feels like an anime  😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

jana sterbak, attitudes, 1987