- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- A Casual Vacancy - J.K Rowling
- LotR
apr 2 2013 ∞
apr 2 2013 +
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- "Because what's the point of them being happy now... If they are going to be sad later ? The answer is, of course. Because they're going to be sad later."
may 18 2013 ∞
may 18 2013 +
- "All the better to see you with"
- "Leonine"
- "Funeral lilies"
- "great pistons ceaselessly thrusting"
- "inspecting cuts on the slabs"
- "it must have been my innocence that captivated him"
- "my eagle-featured, indomitable mother" (blurring gender lines)
- "formal disrobing of the bride"
- Her "spent body" has been used up; her virginity consumed by the Marquis as a "connoisseur" and "gourmand".
- “his dark mane”
- A choker of rubies like an extraordinarily precious slit throat"
- “the white dress, the frail child within it"
- "the jewels round her throat bright as arterial blood”
apr 29 2013 ∞
apr 29 2013 +
- "Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued" - Asha Greyjoy
- "What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms … or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy." - Maester Aemon
- “Never forget who you are, for surely the world won’t. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you” - Tyrion Lannister
- “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” - Tyrion Lannister
apr 2 2013 ∞
apr 2 2013 +
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- "instinctual shudder of fear" & "she felt herself to be, Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial"
- “green as agate” - materialistic
- “white and unmarked as a spilled bolt of bridal satin”.
apr 29 2013 ∞
apr 29 2013 +
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- "We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy." - Maester Aemon, ASoIaF
- “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous; and it pricks like thorn.” - Romeo, Romeo and Juliet
- "The course of love never did run smooth" - Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream
apr 3 2013 ∞
may 19 2013 +
- ‘I’m sick of people using religion to justify the terrible things they do.’ - Gideon, Criminal Minds
- "Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?" - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
- When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. - William Blake
apr 2 2013 ∞
jul 24 2013 +
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