- Alfred Lord Tennyson
oh to live in one’s own apartment surrounded by antique furniture and books…
oh to live in a victorian styled home with orange tinted lamps that flicker in the evening as paintings of obscure aesthetic origins line the walls of the hallway where i can pretend to be sherlock holmes pacing before the bookshelves and scattered papers trying to uncover the truth behind the age old murder of the old owner…
- edgar allan poe
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we are mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.”
- Homer, The Iliad
Frankenstein but it’s just Victor being depressed because he realizes his entire life is his fault:
i watched the phantom of the opera (2004) for the first time and i don’t think i’ll mentally be okay for the next week—
“We men are wretched things”
- Homer, The Iliad
“Oh to be loved by a writer…written about endlessly, ardently, passionately…”
deciding which book on my mountainous TBR to read next is a very specific kind of torture
Hello my dears, today I've been called a "pretentious fuck" for liking classic lit.