Shivering Bones

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

—François de La Rochefoucauld (via showslow)

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.

Angela Carter, “The Lady of the House of Love” from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (via commanderspock)

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But someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (via clasic-maria)

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