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this is a short book but at this point if i had taken a shot every time le fanu used the word “languid” or “languor” i’d absolutely be under the table

“i have been in love with no one, and never shall, unless it should be with you.” 🤨🤨

vampires vampires vampires i love vampires

“[pomegranates] stick in the throat. they scatter to a hundred seeds. they bring daughters of earth back down to the land of death — but death does not claim them.”
yayy my pomegranate tattoo

they’re making me feel feral

buckeye mention

birdwatching mention

oh my god… red had a perfume created based on the scent of the tea blue likes…

ladybird mention

ozymandias mention

“the further removed people are from a language, the less likely they are to be understood as complex individuals”

hell yeah dolores o’riordan of the cranberries mention

“where countless women are found dead in alleyways and on the sides of dirt roads, their bodies discarded because they were not able to conceive children, particularly boys.”
this should be a slap in the face to any western woman who doesn’t consider herself a feminist. you look so stupid to say that.

“even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. he way leave the group that produced him — he may be forced to — but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere.” - james baldwin
james baldwin i love you james baldwin so fire

“aside – ‘damn him!’” i read this as though mr. rochester were light yagami

it said “the night cometh when no man shall work” and i read it as “the night man cometh” i’m cooked

“would it not be strange to be chained for life to a man who regarded one but as a useful tool?” oh charlotte brontë you’re awesome

god this st. john guy sucks

“you are formed for labour, not for love” insane thing to say

ok no i was half right half wrong

surely this mr. st. john must be jane’s relative john eyre

forgot to update from my drive home on sunday (i’m doing audiobook)

“thy paramour”… love that band!

oh i am not liking jane and mr. rochester together anymore … he is rather quite possessive

reverend dimmesdale? like the town in fairly oddparents? lmao

preternatural

he keeps saying “evanescent.” i love that band

i just realized how female-forward this book is – so much so that brontë introduces and describes all the ladies before the gentlemen. so now i’m thinking of lord ingram as “lady ingram’s husband” instead of the other way around. awesome