Dostoevsky just sat around writing children as absolute angels who are corrupted by the bad influence the world has on them, writing about their helplessness, their frustrations with the adult systems and asked us to create a better world for them, to be kind, to be understanding and compassionate, so the little ones have joy and how love is a teacher and you must foster it in your heart or the kids will not have love, my guy fyodor was really onto something I think we should talk about this more

‘In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit it, and I don’t… wanna fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That’s weird.’ 

Rodya Raskolnikov, probably.

crime and punishment is such a serious book

the line “your worst sin is that you’ve betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothing” is so raw you’d think it’s from a destiel fanfic or even hetalia but it’s actually from dostoyevskys crime and punishment

dorian gray was so dedicated to intense emotion that he became a remorseless killer and rodion romanovitch raskolnikov was so dedicated to being a remorseless killer that he became intensely emotional

hes a 10 but he lays on the couch in a feverish delirium every day

LOVE dostoevsky's commitment to writing about sick people. Not just like, chronically ill people but i love how 80% of his characters are just are sickly guys who you take one look at and think. Yeah that's a sickly man. He is Unwell

“I will follow you to the ends of the world” and “kiss aziza for me. tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.” or “learn this now and learn it well. like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. always. you remember that, mariam.”

leave me alone i’m thinking about these two quotes; “for you, a thousand times over” and “a man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. it isn't like a mother's womb. it won't bleed. it won't stretch to make room for you”

- the song of achilles by madeline miller

Patroclus. I shall not forget him as long as I am among the living and my own knees have power in them. And if other men forget the dead in Hades, I will remember my beloved companion even there.

// Achilles in the Iliad, 22.387–390, Homer, trans. by Caroline Alexander

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

// Patroclus in The Song of Achilles, Chapter Twelve, Madeline Miller

- Euripides, "Erakles"

Achilles and Patroclus :’))))

Patti Smith, from her memoir Just Kids

local families take in former enemy for dinner

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

things in 19th century novels that bring me an immense amount of joy

a passive aggressive pianoforte moment

any country dance scene

flower symbolism

the love interest telling the heroine he loves her mid panic attack

a women rejecting a marriage proposal from a man she hates

hands

when lore gets dropped via letter

and, most importantly, the First Name Drop™

"fuck you my child is completely fine"

your child reads classic literature for fun