Ah! She Said, Lifting Her Lovely Tear-bright Eyes To The Ceiling. If You Knew All The Dreams Ive Dreamed!

““Ah!” she said, lifting her lovely tear-bright eyes to the ceiling. “If you knew all the dreams I’ve dreamed!””

— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via bregma)

ppl knock at my front door like I’m gonna open it

Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenská dated August 1 1920, featured in Letters to Milena

When Jane Austen wrote, "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," I felt that.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from her novel titled "The Last Man," published in 1826

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

— Paulo Coelho