#crazystupidme

[mrsgiraffey]

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."

– Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë.

[mrsgiraffey]

"All my heart is yours, sir; it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."

– Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë.

[mrsgiraffey]

'Gods are great,' said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. 'But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...'

– American Gods, Neil Gaiman.

[mrsgiraffey]

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?"

—The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

[mrsgiraffey]

"Oh , if only I were alone and no one loved me and I too had never loved anyone!"

— Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mrsgiraffey]

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

– Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

[mrsgiraffey]

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

—Lawrence Durrell

I mean, I'd like to disagree...but this sort of struck me like magic in a weird way.

[mrsgiraffey]

"বিন্দুবাসিনী বলতো, রক্ষে কর। আমার আর পরের জন্মে শিবের মতন স্বোয়ামী দরকার নেই, আমি পরের জন্মে পুরুষ মানুষ হবো।"

–সেই সময়, সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়।

পরজন্মে যেন পুরুষ হই। That resonated with me.