I don’t know if ya’ll noticed, but the top photo is from a news article. Her father was deploying.
Army Wives made a reference, a tribute to this family. Those are the second two pictures. (sorry about the play button, i had to get it online!)
“So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for… and deserved. Which ever since I’ve… ever since I’ve always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or… evasion… but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.”
(Source: fassbenders, via reel-of-film)
"She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you’d given up the thing you most wanted."
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Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via theblackquill)
sigh
