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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.

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)

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"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