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at my core i love women and their problems so much. take any story about a man and make it about a woman and suddenly it’s of great importance to me. i’m all ears. men have an inherently boring quality to them which they must work to overcome. the most boring woman to some is far more interesting than the most interesting man to me.

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Back home in the redwoods

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because i think i loved you. because i think maybe i still do

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"'Cause the first man I killed called me the Devil, and the last boy I killed, the last boy I'll ever love in this world, called me an angel."

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claudia + lestat

"If My Body Could Speak", Blythe Baird, / not my fault, why are you so quiet - laurelled / Susan Smith, wych elm / Anonymous / Medusa, Emma Ruth Rundle /"Into the Water", Paula Hawkins / You Don't Own Me, Tamino

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Claudia and Madeleine + the sun

"Sunlit", R.Wright / Fiona / "Bloodsport", Yves Olade / "Selected Poems", Margaret Atwood / "The Song of Achilles", Madeline Miller / "He fell for freedom, you fell for me, I fell for history (we're just the same goddamn story)", p.d (via lostcap)

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Constance Blackwood ("We have always lived in the castle")

#6, AroarA / I don't love anyone, Belle and Sebastian / "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents", Lindsay C. Gibson, / "We have always lived in the castle", illustrated by Thomas Ehretsmann for "Centipede press" / "The Fall of The House of Usher," Steven Berkoff / "Descending Figure," Louise Glück

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— September 20, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries

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sorry im going half mad as a desi but like. the fact that heathcliff is Not Fucking White is very important to the story actually! he's treated as subhuman for having brown skin and its the main if not only reason he was immeidtaley abused by his stepfamily! hes DESCRIBED differently from the white characters too! what the fuck! he's so obviously like romani or indian or just. NOT WHITE YOU CANT JUST DO THAT. ITS 2024. THE RACISM HE SUFFERS IS NOT EVEN SUBTEXT

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When you find someone, and you're at home with them, and it's always been a bit dim and dark and tragic and all of a sudden someone lights up your world, you'd be ridiculous to choose a life that's been so boring and dull for eternity. She found the love of her life, and she found the light at the end of the tunnel; even if that light didn't burn for a very long time, at least she had it and she really experienced it. To go back to something that was less wasn't an option for her. The second when she said, “I'm turning into a vampire,” it was her dedication to Claudia and to herself. It was always a team. There's no selfishness about any choice. It's always, always been about Claudia. -Roxane Duran on Madeleine choosing death with Claudia over life without her.

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opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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Claudia: *lights a cigarette* I had a body count in triple digits before you were born, isn't that weird

Madeleine, so drunk she can't stand straight: can yuo put that out on me

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iwtv sillies