It’s so hard to see the point sometimes, when the things in life I think are meaningful turn out to mean nothing, and the people who are supposed to love me don’t.
“I loved him very much—more than I could trust myself to say—more than words had power to express.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“One of our culture’s least helpful pieces of advice is that women need to change the way they speak to sound less “like women” (or that queer people need to sound straighter, or that people of color need to sound whiter). The way any of these folks talk isn’t inherently more or less worthy of respect. It only sounds that way because it reflects an underlying assumption about who holds more power in our culture.”
― Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
― Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“It was a sin, and I knew it, and suddenly I realized that I didn't care. For if sin was all I had standing between myself and the darkness, I would take it.”
― The Hacienda
― The Hacienda
“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
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