#classic

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#life #literature #life

Trifles make the sum of life. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

The blood is the life! ↗

— Bram Stoker

#dracula #vampire #life

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials ↗

— Jean Rhys

#literary-fiction #life

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#classic #dark #emotional #life #mental-hospital

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #obsession #love

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. ↗

— Homer

#greece #longing #love #lovers #love