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“my parents had me in order to save him”
can we talk about how messed up that is

"You know, Beal, you've been fighting a whole lot of monsters this year, monsters much more real than any the mythical Hercules fought. And you've been fighting stuff that's come at you out of the blue. And none of it is fair, and none of it is right, and none of it is anything you've deserved. That's the world, Beal. But you haven't crum-bled, have you? And you haven't disappeared.…

the shoutout 😭

“Life might, in some ways, might be a thing of
shreds and tatters, everything might be changed or gone; but pansies and sunset clouds were still fair.”

“Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

He, too, knew-had known for years the delight and allurement and despair and anguish of the rainbow quest.
"Even if we never find it, there's something in the search for it that's better than even the finding would be.”
"But we will find it."

ROMANCE WAS INVENTED HERE BTW

“Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you.”
“But it will be the tenth I want.”

“She will love deeply- she will suffer terribly- she will have glorious moments to compensate.”

if they are not choosing you it is not love
if you are not a priority it is not love
if you have to ask
"is this love?"
it is not love

Just as there is no guarantee that anything can be entirely certain, there is also no guarantee that anything will be entirely uncertain.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“Woman is fine for her satisfaction alone. No man will admire her more, no woman will like her the better for it.


THIS is why Jane Austen is freakin TIMELESS

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility; without having inspired one real passion, and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient.”

oh no! there’s a literal war going on but now i can’t go to europe!

i found it again finally 🥳

i found it again finally 🥳

comparing a “public” school to heaven is a stretch but okay

“But you will find that great honor is not the same as power.”

“one runs the risks of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.”

“it is the time you have wasted for your rose which makes it important.”

“It is only with the heart one can see rightly. what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

i don’t know why they keep making graphic novels of creepy books and why i keep reading them

“For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.”

“Then you shall judge yourself. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are a man of true wisdom.”

“Grown ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

oh goodness the rules of being a women contradicting each other is so relatable