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March 24 - March 31, 2025
To every person who screams when Mr. Darcy helps Lizzie onto the carriage and does his infamous hand flex… This one's for you. Cheers.
Let wisdom be your staff; grip it firmly. Let compassion be your crown; wear it proudly. And above all, bring joy with you wherever you go. Cling to it with all of your might.
We were children. And we felt things the way children feel things. Exaggerated, overwhelming feelings that were not based in anything real.
“Wounds from a fight are just reminders,” he answers coolly. “Reminders that we care enough about something to fight for it.”
Tell me, Idalia, if pain only exists in the life we now live, then why is our most basic instinct to preserve it?”
“Believe me, not being tethered to a man your whole life is more of a blessing than you could know.”
“There are a few reasons a woman will marry. Political alliance, an offer of peace, a rise in station…an heir. Things of that nature. As for women eager to marry, I’ve seen only two reasons. One isn’t boredom; it’s loneliness.
Sometimes, her heart leaps and yearns for something more, something new.”
The second reason,” I demand.
“Love. If you believe in such a thing.”
There are times in a person’s life when a singular moment seems to last longer than it should. As if the gods themselves plucked it straight out of time and lengthened it between their hands like string. Stretching and pulling until mere seconds extend into what feels like an eternity. Depending on what you’re doing at that exact moment, this can be wholly wonderful or completely unbearable.
Not even the loud music can drown out the sounds of my thoughts. The sound of his voice. The sound of his skin calling out for mine.
you’re afraid that showing your wounds is a weakness. But I can assure you; it’s not. Hiding your wounds is idiotic; they can’t heal when you stuff them away. You cannot grow from them if they’re left in the shadows.”
Knowledge is deemed dangerous by the wicked.
They don’t want those beneath them to learn too much because wisdom threatens power.”
To be with him is to die. But to be without him is no way to live.
