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"Yeah she’s thiiiick, but also this feels like I’m watching a movie, so it goes down easy (so far)" — Sep 03, 2025 09:25AM
"Yeah she’s thiiiick, but also this feels like I’m watching a movie, so it goes down easy (so far)" — Sep 03, 2025 09:25AM
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"This is so fascinating. Bog people are one of my most obsessive niche special interests!" — Aug 22, 2025 11:03AM
"This is so fascinating. Bog people are one of my most obsessive niche special interests!" — Aug 22, 2025 11:03AM
My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harvester of fear.


“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“MARIA MADE A LIST of things she would never do. She would never: walk through the Sands or Caesar’s alone after midnight. She would never: ball at a party, do S-M unless she wanted to, borrow furs from Abe Lipsey, deal. She would never: carry a Yorkshire in Beverly Hills.”
― Play It as It Lays
― Play It as It Lays

“I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
- Celine”
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
- Celine”
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

“The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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