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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
“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
“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”
― Emma
― Emma
“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
“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Emma
― Emma
“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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