#i just edited this to add the mermaid bc it's my favourite poem ever ever ever

[littlespoonevan]

they say you can tell a lot about a person by their favourite lyrics or their favourite quotes. what are yours? 💛

oh my god anon this might be my favourite question ever??????? sajkdhs how much time do you have lmao okay this won’t even come close to all my favourite quotes/lyrics but here’s an unfinished list:

“But, dear me, let us be elegant or die.” - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

“I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.” - The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

“Must be the time of year for shooting stars. Looking for each other, like everything is.” - Days Without End, Sebastian Barry

“In the end, it is my belief, words are the only thing that can construct a world that makes sense.” - Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson

“There is no hard truth, only truth on a given day by a given person. It is people who are hard or soft.” - It’s Not Yet Dark, Simon Fitzmaurice

“He is half my soul, as the poets say.” - The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” - The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

“It’s a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.” - The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy who loves you.” - The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

“Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing but he thought perhaps he liked it.” - The Foxhole Court, Nora Sakavic

“I suppose...she makes me quiet. Like Henrietta.” - The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater

“Whatever souls are made of his and mine are the same.” - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

“What will survive of us is love.” - “An Arundal Tomb”, Philip Larkin

“The end of art is peace.” - “The Harvest Bow”, Seamus Heaney

“It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn’t. It should be.” -  Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors, Richard Siken

“Oh must we dream our dreams and have them too?” - “Questions of Travel”, Elizabeth Bishop

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.”- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.” - Caitlyn Siehl

“A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed: and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.” - “The Mermaid”, WB Yeats

“There is no answer. But Eleanor is the answer.” - Chidi Anagonye, The Good Place

“People aren’t thinking about you the way you’re thinking about you.” - Alexis Rose, Schitt’s Creek

“I'd be the last shred of truth In the lost myth of true love

[...] Before he feels alone One final time And marries the sea Imagine being loved by me” - Talk, Hozier

“But you’re not what you thought you were,” - Liability (Reprise), Lorde

“Catch us in the mirror and it looks a lot like love Then you stop me talking as you kiss me from above” - Another Place, Bastille

“What a feeling to be right here beside you now Holding you in my arms When the air ran out and we both started running wild The sky fell down But you've got stars, they're in your eyes And I've got something missing tonight What a feeling to be a king beside you, somehow I wish I could be there now” - What a Feeling, One Direction

“Everybody's looking for love to start a riot But every time I look in your eyes The world gets quiet” - Silence, Before You Exit

“I can see you starin', honey Like he's just your understudy Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me” - Exile, Taylor Swift & Bon Iver

“How the faces of love have changed turning The pages And I have changed oh, but you, you remain Ageless” - Crystal, Stevie Nicks

“Her fight and fury is fiery Oh but she loves Like sleep to the freezing” - Cherry Wine, Hozier

“And if I ever see you again my love All I m ever gonna do is send shivers down That spine of yours” - Lover, Where Do You Live?, highasakite

“Would it really kill you if we kissed?” - Drive, Halsey

“Some love was made for the lights Some kiss your cheek and goodnight” - Slow It Down, The Lumineers

“This morning, with her, drinking coffee” – Johnny Cash about June Carter when asked his description of paradise.

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen,