my teacher: i'm 32 years old
me: sebastian is 32 years old as well
my teacher: who's sebastian
me: he's my husband
my teacher: what
me: i'm married with a viscount
my teacher: you know, this is not normal
me: who wants to be normal, being a normal is so boring

He wanted her. Not merely to bed her —though at the moment that was certainly his uppermost thought— but in other ways as well. Her smile, her sharp tongue, her temper, her infectious laugh, her body and spirit, everything about her struck a pleasurable chord in him.
He could no longer deny that for the rest of his life, he would measure every other woman against her, and find them all lacking.

It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas —

theotherausten:

ravengoodwoman:

there is fucking porn in the Jane Austen tag

porn&penetration

Well, Regency porn is the best, so…

herondales:

#matthew mcfayden’s eyes can just fuck right off #FOR A MOVIE WITH NO KISSING #THERE’S SO MUCH SEX

brain-food:

El Ateneo in Buenos Aires – A bookstore to end all bookstores

In Buenos Aires, in the former Grand Theatre opened a unique, one of a kind Bookstore. This theatre was opened in may 1919, then served as a cinema in the second half of the 1920 ‘s. In 2000 studio Grupo Ilhsa transformed the space into a bookstore named El Ateneo Grand Splendid, which is now the flagship, and takes more than a million visitors a year. (via Freeyork)

When you finish a really good book series.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about them.

Lisa Kleypas (via justcallmegrace) —

arealheroarealhumanbeing:

  The Devil in Winter of the Wallflowers series, is one of my favorite books by Lisa Kleypas.  Evie is 

And St. Vincent is so asfdhagsfdha 

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Dramatic reading of this

areyouinearnest:

Dedicated to my friend Edith (aka Fanny). Edmund definately isn’t one of my Top5 Jane Austen heroes.

Worst Austen hero. This guy just irks me.

He’s boring, slow-witted or blind… inconstant and all a ‘drama queen’ pffffft >8I