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"I was in the mood to read a historical romance with a courtesan as the leading lady so here we are. While this technically fits the bill, it’s a little less Satine and more Fantine than I hoped." — Feb 18, 2026 08:01AM
"I was in the mood to read a historical romance with a courtesan as the leading lady so here we are. While this technically fits the bill, it’s a little less Satine and more Fantine than I hoped." — Feb 18, 2026 08:01AM
My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harvester of fear.
“MARIA MADE A LIST of things she would never do. She would never: walk through the Sands or Caesar’s alone after midnight. She would never: ball at a party, do S-M unless she wanted to, borrow furs from Abe Lipsey, deal. She would never: carry a Yorkshire in Beverly Hills.”
― Play It as It Lays
― Play It as It Lays
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“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
“The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
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