“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
“What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night”
― The Exorcist
― The Exorcist
“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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