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"“Photographs and memories were rare here, with blank spaces grieving picture frames that had once lived upon the wall.”" — Apr 28, 2026 07:21AM
"“Photographs and memories were rare here, with blank spaces grieving picture frames that had once lived upon the wall.”" — Apr 28, 2026 07:21AM
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this story was tragic and deeply, deeply interesting. it has the makings of every good gothic tale: spirits (dead and drunken), spooky houses, wild landscapes, and - of course - a near-incestual marriage or two. it reminded me deeply of Bram Stoker's
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""The sight of this poor human relic thrilled me to the heart, but not with hope nor fear, only with a desolate melancholy [...] the thought of its owner appeared before me like the presence of an actual man. [...] the whole human fact of him, as a creature like myself, with hair and blood and seeing eyes, haunted me in that sunny, solitary place, not like a spectre, but like some friend whom I had basely injured."" — Jan 28, 2026 12:31PM
""The sight of this poor human relic thrilled me to the heart, but not with hope nor fear, only with a desolate melancholy [...] the thought of its owner appeared before me like the presence of an actual man. [...] the whole human fact of him, as a creature like myself, with hair and blood and seeing eyes, haunted me in that sunny, solitary place, not like a spectre, but like some friend whom I had basely injured."" — Jan 28, 2026 12:31PM
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Emma
― Emma
“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”
― Emma
― Emma
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
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