“Your mother was there for me at a time when no one else was. Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.”

 ”I will if you go out with me, Evans.”

(Source: charlottewatsons)

It’s interesting for me, with Harry, because throughout the series he’s so much a boy in search of a father and yet at these times of real stress it’s his mother that’s a place of refuge … so in fact what I wrote about Harry being incredibly loved in his earliest days is measurably true, that will literally have given him protection that no one can undo. His brain will have developed in a way that Voldemort’s brain didn’t because Voldemort was, from the moment of his birth, institutionalised. So I suppose Lily was representative of safety, in a way that a father couldn’t be because he’s constantly told that he looks just like his father, he’s got to live up to the expectations of his father, his father, his father but Lily is something different, Lily’s the person who stood by the cot and tried to stop her baby dying.

J.K Rowling on Lily, The Women of Harry Potter. (via morglins)

so-weasley:

A requested Jily gif set.

I made another gif, but I liked these two better.

The Life and Times (x)

secretlycrazy:

(x)

daylightdoe:

four seasons of jily ; third - spring

“Let’s live while we are young”

prongsandevans:

The crowd slowly thinned, and Lily found the shelves sufficiently spacious. She selected a book or two worth browsing at least and glanced about for an empty chair. There was one available in the corner, but Lily did not advance towards it at once, for her eyes fell on a familiar crop of black hair and the wizard in possession of it, leaning against a shelf with a cheap looking paperback in hand.

James Potter.

Lily smiled broadly, inexplicably amused by the sight. She returned her books to the shelf and made her way towards the wizard. Rather than addressing him, Lily walked up, right beside him, and leaned over as though reading a page of his book over his shoulder.

The Life and Times, Chapter 24 (requested by drawingonbathroomstalls)

samdearborns:

I need someone, someone who hears,
For you, I’ve waited all these years.

For you, I’d wait ‘til kingdom come,
Until my days, my days are done.
Say you’ll come and set me free,
Just say you’ll wait, you’ll wait for me.
Just say you’ll wait, you’ll wait for me.