#Camilla Macaulay

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

"There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin"

-hozier

[singulxarity]

Reading the secret history makes me truly wonder if humans are capable of the love described in books or if we solely love people for the aesthetic and need for love.

Do aesthetics play an essential role in love?

Appearance, yes.

Personality?

Is a person's personality part of their aesthetic?

Do we change our personalities to conform to an aesthetic?

If so, isn't love entirely dependent on aesthetic?

[lanabanana79]

[elainiisms]

you ppl love villains/morally grey characters UNTIL they're a woman, then all of a sudden they are annoying, evil and irredeemable

[betryl]

Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

[pagesofjasmine]

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

| The Secret History

[qiornono]

it’s that time of year again where i reread tsh for the bajillionth time so here is the greek class!!!

[averagepretentiousreader]

Life is short. Drink another coffee. Read another book. Listen to your favourite song again. Hug your mom. Laugh. Cry. Dance in the rain. Push your friend off a cliff because of a milkshake.

[winterbear-a]

Charles Macaulay

'Not sure if I need a glass of wine or a gun or both.'

—Charles Macaulay, The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992).

[franzkafkalover]

A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

[blondephenobarbitol]

omg wait it's winter time??? And I have no friends??? This is so Richard Papen almost freezing to death in a warehouse coded

[droptheguillotineplease]

Doodles of the characters from Donna Tartt's The Secret History

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

"Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?"

[lanabanana79]

[poseidonsarmoury]

“Death is the mother of beauty.” “And what is beauty?” “Terror”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[betryl]