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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
“You shall not look at me, she wants to say, you shall not see into me. I will not be yours. How dare you assess me and find me lacking?”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be
asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”
― The Marriage Portrait
asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”
― The Marriage Portrait
“Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“Does the light still slant into my chamber in the evening, just before it disappears below the city's roofs? Do you miss me? Even a little? Does anyone ever go and stand before my portrait?”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“You need a plan,” she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. “To lose your temper is to lose the battle.”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
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