favorite literary classics ◆ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ◆ 1847
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
classic lit moodboards- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
↳It was dark now, and as we dipped under a little bridge I put my arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder and drew her toward me and asked her to dinner. Suddenly I wasn’t thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm. A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
[ LITERATURE EDITORIAL SERIES ] Dante’s The Inferno
↳ Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
literature posters; 1984 by george orwell
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
literature posters; the wonderful wizard of oz by l. frank baum
literature posters: pride and prejudice - jane austen
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
FAVE BOOKS: pride and prejudice by jane austen
i declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! how much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! ⏤ when i have a house of my own, i shall be miserable if i have not an excellent library!
shakespeare: macbeth
out, out, brief candle!
life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more. it is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.”
literature posters; the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas