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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
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Emma
― Emma
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“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
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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