I am not Lizzie Bennet

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[guerrillatech]

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[liz-not-bennet]

He's broad-shouldered with a chiseled jawline and has eyes that say he's gotten a concussion or two.

- Julie Chan Is Dead, Liann Zhang

(p. 69)

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[liz-not-bennet]

Her dad's on the rich list and her granddad's an Earl. I wish the whole lot of them a Saltburning.

- Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane

(p. 4)

[liz-not-bennet]

He's starting to get frustrated with me now. Looks like I've burned my bridges as well as my flat.

- Faking It, Portia MacIntosh

(chap. 3)

[liz-not-bennet]

Funny how the values of every era protect men. The house always wins [...].

- Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane

(p. 163)

[liz-not-bennet]

[...] he completely persuades himself before he attempts to persuade you, so he's like an evangelic preacher of his own fantasies.

- Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane

(p. 19)

[liz-not-bennet]

She was always too embarrassed to admit that she ever wanted anything, as if there was something humiliating about being a person with desires.

- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

(p. 99)

[liz-not-bennet]

How dare he vandalise her youth for a few meaningless encounters?

- Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane

(p. 220)

[liz-not-bennet]

There are some people in this world who remind you of exactly how you like to speak.

- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

(p. 138)

[liz-not-bennet]

Everybody in my life is always telling me I can be anyone I want, but then whenever I do one thing they don't like, they act like I've ruined myself.

- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

(p. 166)

[liz-not-bennet]

But I also know that language is determined naturally by the people who speak it.

- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

(p. 136)

[liz-not-bennet]

I don't think about what I want, I just worry about what might happen to me and then figure out how to keep those things from happening.

- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

(p. 245)

[vivacias]

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

[liz-not-bennet]

Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body.

- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

(p. 170)

[liz-not-bennet]

[...] they sometimes joke about people who've never been to therapy: 'What? You mean, she still has the personality her parents gave her?'

- Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes

(p. 54)