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“Flowers for Algernon again?” she asks. “Doesn’t that book always make you cry?” “One day it won’t,” I say. “I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.”
I have online friends and my Tumblr book reviews, but that’s not the same as being a real person who can be visited by strange boys bearing Bundt cakes.
curiouser and curiouser madeline whittier
Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn’t love mr. darcy Madeline: All girls love Mr. Darcy? Olly: are you kidding? even my sister loves darcy and she doesn’t love anybody. Madeline: She must love somebody. I’m sure she loves you.
But he overcomes it and eventually realizes that character matters more than class! He’s a man open to learning life’s lessons! Also, he’s completely gorgeous and noble and dark and brooding and poetic. Did I mention gorgeous? Also, he loves Elizabeth beyond all reason.
Real quote of me defending Darcy with my life lol
Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.
“It’s not your fault. Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
“Love can’t kill me,” I say, parroting Carla’s words. “That’s not true,” she says. “Whoever told you that?”
Compared with Carla, she’s altogether less.
Mystery Girl laughs at something Olly says.
AVERY KYLIE GRAMBS?!?!?!
Q: Will I encounter turbulence? A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.
prom•ise (ˈpräməs) n. pl. -es. 1. The lie you want to keep. [2015, Whittier]
INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON Spoiler alert: You don’t exist if no one can see you.
The world is casually cruel.
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I am not sick and I never have been.
ONCE UPON A time there was a girl whose entire life was a lie.
Gypsy Rose, anyone?
