“Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.”
― The Rape of the Lock
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.”
― The Rape of the Lock
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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