‘I wish I could hold you,’ she continued, bitterly, ’till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do!’
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heigths
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Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they’ll blight you – they’ll damn you. You loved me – then what right had you to leave me?
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness; they no longer gave the impression of looking at the objects around her: they appeared always to gaze beyond, and far beyond – you would have said out of this world.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.
Joan Bauer, Almost Home
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.
Joanna Hoffman
I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
Joanne Harris
I am happy. I think I really am. But then I get sad. And sometimes it overwhelms me how sad I can get.
Maria Joana (via t-i-g-e-r-l-i-l-y)
We shared a joint and smoke billows in the way walls collapse
I told him I don’t believe in the concept of time
but I counted the seconds we were one
in my head.
Elka Tolhoek, “A Message To The Man Who Cheated On His Girlfriend With Me: I Liked You, You Fucking Arsehole”
I will keep you,” he said softly, as sweet as black tea, “and I will keep you warm.
Deathless (Catherynne M. Valente)
If I must be wrung through the paradox — broken into wholeness, wring me around the moon; pelt me with particles from the dark side. Fling me into space; hide me in a black hole. Let me dance with devils on dead stars. Let my scars leave brilliant traces, for my highborn soul seeks its hell — in high places.
Aveh Pevlor Johnson (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)
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