I wanted "peace," to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
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emma woodhouse is the funniest austen girl. she has one-sided drama with the most reserved girl who has done nothing but literally just mind her business. she gets angry about not being invited to a social event even though she would have said no just because she would have liked to be asked. she's said she's aiming to read more for years but has never actually read more. she refers to her best friend as being naive and not very smart and kind of manipulates her while simultaneously both complicating her life greatly from the moment they meet to being her ride or die. she is literally The Problem. she denies that she is The Problem. she makes me want to pull my hair out. I love her more than anything.
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Harper Lee (April 28, 1926) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
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“It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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you are the altar cup and from this
i do fill my mouth. /
martyr, my religion is love,
is you.
Anne Sexton, "Sweeney".
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"You're like a cozy mystery novel, each chapter filled with delightful surprises. Who else could keep me so endlessly intrigued?"
- uz phie -
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It's Always "I Love You", And Never,
"THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN YOUR FACE, DRAW BACK IN FEAR I'M THE MASK YOU WEAR IT'S ME THEY HEAR"
@luciferslilith7
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"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too."
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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