“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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when most people see frankenstein stuff in stores during halloween season they’re totally normal about it. but when i see frankenstein stuff in the stores i get up on the shelves and start howling because i know that little green dude is the direct product of an angsty goth teenager writing highly intellectual prose in imitation of her historical philosopher parents while her groupie sister is being impregnated by lord byron in the next room after stalking him across the continent after his divorce and her boyfriend percy is tripping balls on his kidney disease medicine (opium) and hallucinating dead naked women while trying to avoid polidori the 20 y/o doctor who challenged him to a duel (also the inventor of the first vampire novel in the english language after a story he stole from byron told that very same night but made gayer out of revenge even thoug-
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The temptation to write about Nick clearly being gay for Gatsby in my english literature exam next week... its a mock so it wouldn't be the end of the world if it went badly??? Seriously someone talk me out of this or I'll do it
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But it is the fate of human beings to live on.
D.H. Lawrence, England, My England
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My Kindle has been so so so helpful lately! Definitely a must for me in studying literature
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron
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reading novels for my uni modules: this is hell, this is tedious, this is the worst. I'm never reading again.
reading novels in my free time: I love this form of escapism, why would I ever do anything else ever
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