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وإنني لأعترف لكم بأنني ثرثار أتحدث بما لا تفهمون، وقد أضايقكم بثرثرتي هذه، إلا أنني لا أؤذيكم بها، ولا أختلف عن غيري في ذلك.

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إلا أنني مقتنع تمامًا بأن الإدراك الشديد، أو أي نوع من الإدراك، هو في الحقيقة مرض.

"لم أرَ في هذه الدنيا شيئًا أكثر إيلامًا من محاولة شخصٍ حزين أن يضحك ويتصنّع السعادة."

So far, so tedious. I honestly have no idea what exactly Dickens is trying to say.

" إنها قصَّة كئيبة مِن تلك القصص القاتمة المؤلِمة التي تجري في بشكل سري من دون أن يتفطَّن لها أحد تحت سماء بطرسبورغ الملبّدة."

نهاية الجزء الثانِي أدهشتني للغاية 😮‍💨.

I don’t think I’ll ever run out of books I’ll be excited to read 📖🤍.

ناتاشا حقًا غبية 🤦🏻‍♀️.

I can already see where this is headed, and it’s bad… really bad. How can she not see it?

I devoured page after page today, yet found myself no less eager for what lay ahead 🫠📖.

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 🩶✨.