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Mnemosyne In Dust

Ask   For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

"Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be."
Edna O’Brien, Country Girls
— 1 month ago with 6 notes
#Country Girls  #Edna O'Brien  #books  #quote  #love  #romance 
"To be loved to madness——such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover."
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
— 2 months ago with 7 notes
#The Return of the Native  #Thomas Hardy  #literature  #books  #Eustacia Vye  #love  #lover  #passion  #loneliness 
"I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
— 4 months ago with 4 notes
#Daphne du Maurier  #literature  #romance  #love  #pearls  #fashion  #elegance  #sophistication  #satin  #youth  #books  #Rebecca  #style 
"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
— 4 months ago with 22 notes
#Aldous Huxley  #Brave New World  #God  #freedom  #books  #literature  #dystopia  #novel  #goodness  #sin  #danger  #life 
"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate."
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
— 4 months ago with 11 notes
#Gone with the Wind  #Margaret Mitchell  #vanity  #books  #hate  #love  #sixteen  #teen  #teenager