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The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.
from Mary Shelley’s preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
The fall of the house of usher (Edgar Allen Poe)
This is for sure my favourite quote from my favourite Poe story, it always sends shivers down my spine.
Made by me <3
Historically Accurate fashion in movies, books, and T.V is my kink.
-Grantaire
Les Miserable (Victor Hugo)
By me <3
-Jason
You and I
Made by me <3
-Wendla Bergmann.
This always makes me cry when she says it.
By me <3
I'm fine. :’(
No one loves the light like the blind man
The very pinnacle of genius
here's a proposal, a film about the Romantics starring the cast of 2010s snl.
Kristen Wiig as Mary Shelley, John Mulaney as Percy Shelley, Bill Hader as Lord Byron, Pete Davidson (in a wig) as John Keats (I'd pay to see that tbh) and Vanessa Bayer as Claire Clairmont
bonus points for Nick Kroll as John Polidori and Seth Meyers as Wordsworth
honestly the fact that I wrote so much about Mary Shelley in my English mock that I got an 8 despite not even finishing my article just sums me up
Goethe has said, that in youth we cannot be happy unless we love. I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others.
Mary Shelley, from The Last Man. (via weepforadonais)
mum
"It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."
Donna Tartt, The Secret History