“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Antigone
― Antigone
“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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