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"Your brother enters a room, and people unwittingly think it must turn about him, for he wears the title. They can't see their world is already turning... and you are the axis point. Are you not tired, brave Atlas, from holding up all the world on your shoulders?" omg I LOVE Rosalie love love love

"People see what they want to see. It is the great failing of man that so few look beyond the superficial to see what lies within."

Rosalie: Ahh, she jilted you. Which for a man, of course, is worse than if she had died.
Tom: What makes you say that?
Rosalie: Because if she had died, you'd have a clean break. The heart can heal and move on. When one is jilted, it becomes a wound that festers. I see the sickness in you now.

“Give her a man full of curious opinions and crude manners if it meant he actually behaved as himself, and not as some manicure version deemed palatable for tender ladies.” — literally the premise of the Dracula essay I wrote for class. I think it perfectly encapsulates men and women in the Victorian era