“Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― The Broken Wings
― The Broken Wings
Classics and the Western Canon
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EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club
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