#connell waldron

Partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian

partly because of my love for you,

partly because of your love for yoghurt

partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches

partly because of the secrecy our smiles

take on before people and statuary.

—Frank O'Hara, Having A Coke With You.

literarymessy:

His hand moves over her hair and he adds:

I love you. I’m not just saying that, I really do.

Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she’s aware of this now, while it’s happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person.

Sally Rooney, Normal People.

Marianne told him this thing about her family. He didn’t know what to say. He started telling her that he loved her. It just happened, like drawing your hand back when you touch something hot. She was crying and everything, and he just said it without thinking. Was it true? He didn’t know enough to know that. At first he thought it must have been true, since he said it, and why would he lie? But then he remembered he does lie sometimes, without planning to or knowing why. It wasn’t the first time he’d had the urge to tell Marianne that he loved her, whether or not it was true, but it was the first time he’d given in and said it.

Sally Rooney, Normal People.

He’s not someone who feels comfortable confiding in others, or demanding things from them. He needs Marianne for this reason. This fact strikes him newly. Marianne is someone he can ask things of. Even though there are certain difficulties and resentments in their relationship, the relationship carries on. This seems remarkable to him now, and almost moving.

—Sally Rooney, Normal People.

You see me as a full human being. That’s why you are not attracted to me.

—Sally Rooney, At The Clinic.

His hand moves over her hair and he adds:

I love you. I’m not just saying that, I really do.

Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she’s aware of this now, while it’s happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person.

Sally Rooney, Normal People.

She wants to tell him things. But it’s too late now, and anyway it has never done her any good to tell anyone.

Sally Rooney, Normal People.

hellish-cruelty:

Can I have the pleasure of your company?

Reblog to ask out fellow users for a talk the walk date.

Films in Frame - Midnight in Paris, About time, Notebook, La la land, Before Sunrise, Once, 13 going 30, Begin again, No time to die, One day

Just the two of us.

Films and tv shows in Frame- In the mood for Love, If beale street could talk, Phantom Thread, Little women, Titanic, Normal People, Cold war, Atonement

Paul Mescal attends the annual Kering “Women in Motion” Awards Photocall at Place de la Castre on May 22, 2022 in Cannes, France.

melioera:

You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.

the tortured men club

I bought myself a silver chain and now I feel like moving to Dublin in hopes of finding myself but instead fall in love with my highschool sweetheart while I debate whether or not to move to America to pursue my masters degree

I’ll commend Normal People and Frozen 2 for giving us boys who have very big feelings towards a girl and voicing them in a respectable way (so far for Normal People, at least. I’m only on episode 4. This could go awry)

italian summer in normal people (2020)