#classic books
…So I was reading Phantom of the opera… I don’t know whether to despise Erik or pity him. Yes I know he killed people and kidnapped others… but-but he had a tough life… he just wanted to be normal. In the end, all he craved was normalcy and the love he’d never received.
That book was a tragedy and no one can convince me otherwise.
“Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,” replied the man’s voice, “and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.” –Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
I think this quote is so beautiful
Hey, Dorian, want to go to the art gallery and look at some portraits of- oh my- um… Never mind…
“A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
thinking about all the books i could read if i didn’t have to study
I have been drowning in studies for months, and all I want to do is devour the mountain of books waiting patiently on my bookshelf
smut ★★★
enemies to lovers slow burn where they barely hold hands★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
recently ♡
girls be like “this is my comfort character” and then they’re either dead or a murderer
do you make playlists about your favorite books, characters and ships or are you normal
no YOU live in a society i live in this frame of pride and prejudice
me describing my favorite fictional characters:
the happiness i get when i buy books is something else entirely
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595/1596)
Brides’ Roses (1890), John Ferguson Weir
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
#CommissionsEarned
’The Lady of the Lake’ by Walter Scott (published in 1810)
’Secrets of the Stars’ by Inez N. McFee (published in 1922)
’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)
Title page of ’Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë (Penguin Classics, 1978 edition)
‘Giovanni’s Room’ by James Baldwin (published in 1956)
’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (quoted from ‘Hamlet’)
