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"Measurement of life should be proportioned to the intensity of the experience therein contained than to its actual length. Their glance, but a moment chronologically, was a season in their history."

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"The scheme of escape hit upon by the convict intellect was simply this. Three men being together, lots were drawn to determine whom should be murdered. The drawer of the longest straw was the 'lucky' man. He was killed. The drawer of the next longest straw was the murderer. He was hanged. The unlucky one was the witness."

Fucking christ this book just cannot give me a fucking break.

"She was all his own, he thought... Yet there were times when her lips seemed to be cold to his kisses, and her eyes to look disdainfully upon his coarser passion... How was it possible indeed, for him to solve the mental enigma when the woman herself was to him a physical riddle?"

Idk maybe don't groom a goddamn child since she was 12 years old dude.

"She had once said that she would like him to stay; and stay he would, whatever fire-breathing dragons might hiss around her."

GODDAMMIT FIND ME A MAN LIKE WILL LADISLAW

""I remember them all," said Will, with the unspeakable content in his soul of feeling that he was in the presence of a creature worthy to be perfectly loved. I think his own feelings at that moment were perfect, for we mortals have our divine moments, when love is satisfied in the completeness of the beloved object."

Fucking Victorians melting my ice cold heart.

"That moment of naturalness was the crystallizing feather-touch: it shook flirtation into love."

"In half an hour he left the house an engaged man, whose soul was not his own, but the woman's to whom he had bound himself. "

Oooooh boy.

"The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil."

Damn.

Pip you ungrateful snobby little shit.

Christ. It only took a third of the book to actually get into the central narrative. Thanks Dickens.

"i shall die at sixty before having formed any opinion concerning myself. I made a list of human characteristics: every time I had one characteristic I had its opposite."

"I still lick the menstrual blood of my heart."

"I still lick the menstrual blood of my heart."