Everything worth anything is both terrifying and beautiful. Like the first time that you do something that you know is wrong. You know it’s wrong, yet you do it anyways. There was a ladybug crawling around my ankle when I saw Victoria let he grandmother’s bird escape from its cage. I watched the bird disappear into the endless sky like a lonely balloon. It was so sad. That image left a scar that never completely healed. Because until then I thought that bad thing could only happen by accident, never on purpose. It was Victoria who first made me confront that danger exist on the inside of everybody. — Fernanda (Rooney Mara) in Tanner Hall. (via miss—salander)