" Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
- Frankenstein | Mary Shelly.
" Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth "
Frankenstein | Mery Shelly.
" I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection. "
- Frankenstein | Mery Shelly.
" Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. "
- Frankenstein | Mery Shelly.
—"but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain
from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the dis-charge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society."
- Frankenstein | Mary Shelly.
" Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features. "
- Frankenstein | Mary Shelly.
Manchester
Neil Perry quoting Henry David Thorea: “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.” - from Dead Poets Society
Carpe Diem,” Keating whispered loudly. “Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.
" A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. "
- Frankenstein | Mary shelly
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Ravenclaw: I’m 80% exhaustion, 10% sarcasm, 20% don’t care.
Slytherin: That’s 110%
Ravenclaw: 20% doesn’t care
Slytherin: should’ve seen that one coming
Gryffindor: If I die I want you to have all my books
Ravenclaw: That’s the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to me tbh
Ravenclaw: Don’t die though
Ravenclaw: You don’t really wash your hands, they actually wash each other while you just stand there and watch.
Gryffindor: Raven, IT’S 2 AM
Gryffindor: But HOLY SHIT
Ravenclaw: What is tooth paste, if not bone soap?
Slytherin: Existence is a prison and being your friend is maximum security prison.
M E T A N O I A
[GREEK]
(n.) The journey of changing one's mind, heart, self, or way of life; spiritual conversion.
Ravenclaw - Literature Student 📖✨
These vibes are immaculate