~a thread of my favorite words and quotes and lyrics and stories because i’m obsessed with literature and poetry and becoming an english professor at a prestigious university in london~

“i don’t love you i’m just passing the time. you could love me if i knew how to lie, but who could love me i am out of my mind?” -ryan ross, she had the world

young & beautiful

“i can feel your heart inside of mine” -harry styles, if i could fly

Swore that two lives should be like one
As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,
As long as the sunflower sought the sun,—It shall be, I said, for eternity
‘Twixt you and me!
Dear friend, those times are over and done.
Love’s web is spun.

- her voice (oscar wilde)

And there is nothing left to do
But to kiss once again, and part,
Nay, there is nothing we should rue,
I have my beauty,—you your Art,
Nay, do not start,
One world was not enough for two
Like me and you.

-her voice (oscar wilde)

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated..

on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey
-gatsby