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how the fuck is march almost over???? wasn’t it just valentines day?? wasn’t it just new years???? wasn’t it just christmas???? wasn’t it just treat yo self day???? didn’t man just go to the moon in 1969????? life is so crazy

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"i thought about the books that i had looked through in the bookstore. it occurred to me that they were full of things that people wanted to say to other people, or things people wanted somebody to say to them."

- mieko kawakami, all the lovers in the night

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it's december. my favourite time of the year:))

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It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.

— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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"to be honest, i couldn’t have cared less. whether i was normal or not made little to no difference. to me, it was as subtle as the differences in the nuance of the words."

- won pyung sohn, almond.

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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had the same dreams.

Vladimir Nabokov, from 'Lolita'

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Jane Austen, Persuasion

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““I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.””

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, 1872

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"Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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"for if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. it is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. but though i can digress with the best of them, i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."

-the secret history, donna tartt

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I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

Madeline Miller, Circe

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I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens, from 'Great Expectations’

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"you are mine, you shall be mine, you and i are one for ever."

- joseph sheridan le fanu, carmilla

- "vampire fairy demon" takato yamamoto

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Emily Brontë

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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita