THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live…..the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

happy birthday @platosaristocracy

“Tell me that you hate me.”

“I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.” 

 He kisses me harder.

@perseusnet​ ·· – q u e s t # 1 1, iconic quotes           

                   — “Maybe it's a problem that requires brains,” Annabeth said. "Ares has strength. That's all he has. Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes.”

How strange that instead of taking his heart, I’m hoping he takes mine.

　　↳ To Kill A Kingdom, Alexandra Christo

365 characters; hermione granger (harry potter)

ultimately, she had a bigger heart than she had a brain, and that’s saying something for hermione.

Anna Karenina / Kitty Shcherbatskaya 👭 dedicated to @tolstayas

— the book thief, markus zusak

wizarding vogue’s power couples 

↳ lucius malfoy & narcissa black

❝ oh but my love, we answer only to the gods in the mirror. ❞

@henriettia asked: radio silence or i was born for this?

“I wonder – if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”

@scarletguardsource​ promo: the red queen quartet

“ for all will be tested, but not all will survive ”

“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”

top literature ships ( 5/15 ): ↳ Piper McLean/Annabeth Chase She pulled Annabeth forward until their foreheads touched. Through her fingertips, she could feel Annabeth’s rapid pulse.

Pretty princess, so alone Wanting pain, wanting bone. Not bone, but heart, See inside, see the spark

acotarnet event eight; alternative covers— vintage inspired (x)

Folktaleweek2019 day 5 - "Darkness” - North Wind and Diamond from George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind

“I will tell you how I am able to bear it, Diamond: I am always hearing, through every noise, through all the noise I am making myself even, the sound of a far-off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it means; and I don't hear much of it, only the odour of its music, as it were, flitting across the great billows of the ocean outside this air in which I make such a storm; but what I do hear is quite enough to make me able to bear the cry from the drowning ship. So it would you if you could hear it... And do you know... that song has been coming nearer and nearer. Only I must say it was some thousand years before I heard it.” - North Wind, At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

wizarding locations 1/10 — malfoy manor

❝ manicure in the wound, pearl on the bruise. ❞