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Helen, don’t be stupid. Stop seeing red flags through rose-coloured glasses 🤦🏻‍♀️.

So far, it’s appealing to me 🖤💫.

“Yes, Nelly,” he added, “my son is prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor.

Heathcliff, what a vile creature you are!
I’m rather ashamed of the fleeting moments when I felt sorry for you. The more I get to know you, the more I discover how foul you truly are.

"You said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on 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!”

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Chaos 🌪️.

‘I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, “That man!” ’
‘Hush!’ said Margaret, ‘or I shall try and show you your mother’s indignant tones as she says, “That woman!” "

I am not ready to say Goodbye to this beautiful couple 😮‍💨❤️‍🔥.

“By-and-by they’ll find out, tyrants makes liars.”

Well done, Elizabeth Gaskell 💕🪽.

“Strong man as he was, he trembled at the anticipation of what he had to say, and how it might be received.”

For all his strength, he is helpless before her 🫠❤️‍🔥.

“ Mr Thornton was in habits of authority himself, but she seemed to assume some kind of rule over him at once. He had been getting impatient at the loss of his time on a market-day, the moment before she appeared, yet now he calmly took a seat at her bidding."

I’m screaming internally 😆❤️‍🔥.

'There are forms and ceremonies to be gone through, not so much to satisfy oneself, as to stop the world's mouth, without which stoppage there would be very little satisfaction in life.'

Somehow, this made me reflect on things I had never truly thought about before 🩶.

Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy:
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either curb the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency.

I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Wow!

Do not wring your hands.
Peace! Sit you down,
And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,
If it be made of penetrable stuff,
If damned custom have not brazed it so
That it be proof and bulwark against sense.

In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law;
But ’tis not so above.
There is no shuffling.
There the action lies
In his true nature.

One of my favorite things about reading Shakespeare is discovering what hides behind a single word. In Hamlet, Claudius calls himself a “limed soul.” Birdlime was a sticky substance used to trap birds, the more they struggled, the more trapped they became.

What a brilliant image for guilt: a soul trying to free itself, only to become more entangled.

Shakespeare never ceases to amaze me 🙂‍↕️🌹✨.

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.”

How often do we hesitate, not because we lack courage, but because we can see too many possibilities, too many consequences, too many what-ifs?

Sometimes our awareness protects us.
Sometimes it paralyzes us.

I love how Shakespeare captures that conflict in a single line 🩶✨.

“ The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns “

"Thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought. “

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?

“ Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.

O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to reckon my groans: but that I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.

Thine evermore, most dear lady,

Whilst this machine is to him, Hamlet.”

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Now to my word;

It is “Adieu, adieu! remember me.”

I have sworn’t.

“ That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

“ Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,

Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.“


~ I have my suspicions already; now I’m waiting for them to be confirmed🙂‍↕️.

“But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

💔

“But to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness; ’tis unmanly grief;
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven…”

“ I dont no why Im dumb agen or what I did rong. Mabye its because I dint try hard enuf or just some body put the evel eye on me. But if I try and practis very hard mabye Ill get a littel smarter and no what all the words are."

Currently crying. I wasn’t prepared at all. The way his writing deteriorated hurts far more than I expected. I am genuinely in tears 😩.

"...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.... "

I genuinely think the whole story is going to take a dark turn after Fay brought that white female mouse for Algernon. I do not know why, but it feels like the calm before the storm 🌪️.

“There is no question about it now. I'm in love.”

Ok, Charlie.