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I’ve seen mothers lash themselves raw over the death of a child, believing they crossed destiny, ignoring the stench of the fifty other children in the plague cart outside. Destiny helps people believe there’s an order to this horseshit. There isn’t.

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Great Expectations (2011)

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House of the Dragon S2EP1 " A Son for a Son"

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I’ve just found a pair of my earrings and one coral dress clip, Persie must have lost the other one. Everything she ever had was snatched or hand-me-down, filched, or half of what by rights she should have had.

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period drama meme | authors [½] ➝ sarah waters

Victorian: Tipping the Velvet (1998), Affinity (1999), Fingersmith (2002) Interwar: The Paying Guests (2014) WW2/Postwar: The Night Watch (2006), The Little Stranger (2009) “It’s the complexity of the past that’s important to keep in mind. Crucially, it’s not modern people in fancy dress. It’s people whose loves and stories have emerged from a historical period that was very different from ours, but was as complicated, in transition, and dislocated as ours is now.”

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Lana Turner in the late 1960s with a Snoopy plushie 🌹

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’Geralt, don’t leave me here! I’ll never survive by myself! Don’t leave me!’ 'You must be insane, Dandelion’, the Witcher said, leaning over in the saddle. ‘You must be insane with fear, if you could think I’d leave you.’.

— Sword of Destiny: Tales of the Witcher

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Wuthering Heights (2011)

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MICHAELA STIRLING Bridgerton Season Four

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"Maurice's mother lived near London, in a comfortable villa among some pines. There he and his sisters had been born, and thence his father had gone up to business every day, thither returning."

maurice (1987) + the hall's house