the secret history aesthetic
maybe if you bundled yourself up and went for a walk out in the cold then came back inside with rosy cheeks and cool skin and warmed yourself up with a nice warm cup of herbal tea with honey maybe then you'd calm down
โBeing the only female in what was basically a boysโ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didnโt compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.โ - Donna Tartt, The Secret History
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
relationship status: mentally married with henry m. winter.
THE SNOW in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
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The Secret History. Donna Tartt (1992).