To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.

- Arthur Conan Doyle (A Scandal in Bohemia, 1888)

hannibalthecanibal:

and here we have harry potter literally standing on a pile of letters to try and catch one that is still in the air. there are clearly reasons why he doesn’t get sorted into ravenclaw

But never on your sleeve, unless you wanna taste defeat.

It`s a great thing to get older and learn. I don`t feel bound in any way by how many years I`ve lived. I identify just as much with my 86-year-old grandmother as I do with my sister.

quentinsucks:

ive got a problem and its called older men