austen meme ⇾ books ⇾ pride and prejudice
i cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. it is too long ago. i was in the middle before i knew that i had begun.
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; Selected Diaries
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I sometimes feel somewhat of an exile.
5-year-old kid on Halloween: Trick or treat!
Me: Awh, and what are you supposed to be?
Kid: Frankenstein!
Me: Ah, well that is where you are wrong. You see, sweet summer child, Frankenstein was not the name of the monster, as so many people wrongly believe. Frankenstein was the name of the man who created him, without any of the nuts and bolts that you have poking out of your neck, may I add. Therefore, your costume is completely ill-informed and incorrect. However, if you stand by your declaration that you are Frankenstein, and that your monstrous appearance is simply symbolic of his nature as the true monster of the story, then your efforts are, in fact, commendable. Here, have a bonbon.
lit moodboard: The Great Gatsby
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly, into the past.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth : Act II, Scene III (via vladadoll)
His silver skin laced with his golden blood.
moodboards: elizabeth bennet
“there is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. my courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
russian romeo & juliet 4/?
pink roses hidden by the blanket of glittering snow. look how the russian angel holds herself! printsessa yuliya, sweet and obedient, still a child licking cream from fingers, but radiant and clever as the fox, all too clever for her romeo.
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