gingerblood

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[gingerblood]

i don’t know where else to put this but i LOVE big thief i love adrienne lenker i want to cry i want to laugh her music is so achingly beautiful its so human it is magic i want to inject it into my veins and let it warm me from the inside STOP IT why is it so beautiful i can’t even describe it i’ll sob like are you kidding me right now

[gingerblood]

“And he told me carefully, too carefully, “Two fucking weeks and I want it back. You gave me these pieces of you I know you haven’t given to anybody else, and they’re mine. You can’t take ’em back. I need them more than you do, you hear me?””

Luna and the Lie, Mariana Zapata.

[gingerblood]

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”

~ Albert Camus, A Happy Death.

[gingerblood]

“Gods are nothing without fools to believe in them.”

~ Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone.

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“Pathetic? To die for love? What could be more glorious?”

~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

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“Misery such as mine has no pride. I care not who knows I am wretched. The triumph of seeing me so may be open to all the world. I must feel - I must be wretched - and they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can.”

~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

~ Emma, Jane Austen.

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“And a voice, saying: You needn’t fear the darkness when you could become it.”

Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars.

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“‘You can keep it a secret,’ he said softly. ‘But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.’”

~ Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel.

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.

[gingerblood]

“Do you know one day I will kill you? I won’t kill you because I have stopped loving you or because I'm jealous of you, but simply because I sometimes want to devour you.”

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler.

[gingerblood]

“Well, if God doesn't exist, who's laughing at us?”

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

[gingerblood]

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.