i am terrified that twenty years from now i will still look back and feel an ache when i remember the boy who broke my heart all those years ago. and i’ll somehow still miss you. but for you, i’ll probably be just one of the many girls you dated when you were young. you’ll look back and only remember a foggy memory of me; my face, a blurry vision in your mind.
— i think i’ll miss you forever
valentines day is coming up,, if you ever wanted to gift me a sword with an engraved romantic message,,, now is the time
Bringing sexy back - Vikki Dougan walking down the street, 1950.
And in our eyes the same sadness, like a night landscape.
Marguerite Duras, from Blue Eyes, Black Hair (pub. November 1986)
“so maybe this bridge was always meant to burn / maybe we were handing the matches back and forth back and forth / waiting for someone to strike out / waiting for someone to say / okay this is enough / I need to see some light / I need to see some flames / let’s set this ablaze and not call the police / let’s close our eyes and run opposite ways / I think I need to get away from you for awhile / I think I need to make sure I can never come home to you again.”
— where did the fire go / it never kept us warm– lily rain
“I am all the things I have ever loved”
- Toni Morrison
Instead of doing literally anything else that may be considered “productive” I went ahead and made this.
I present to you my list of Classic Lit Authors Sorted into Hogwarts Houses:
William Shakespeare - Ravenclaw
Emily Dickinson - Hufflepuff
H. P. Lovecraft - Ravenclaw
Leo Tolstoy - Gryffindor
Edgar Allan Poe - Ravenclaw
Oscar Wilde - Slytherin
Robert Ervin Howard - Gryffindor
Jane Austen - Ravenclaw
Mark Twain - Slytherin
Ernest Hemingway - Gryffindor
Aldous Huxley - Slytherin
Sylvia Plath - Ravenclaw
Ray Bradbury - Ravenclaw
William Blake - Slytherin
James Joyce - Slytherin
William Wordsworth - Hufflepuff
Lewis Carroll - Ravenclaw
Walt Whitman - Slytherin
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ravenclaw
T. S. Eliot - Ravenclaw
Victor Hugo - Gryffindor
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Gryffindor
George Orwell - Slytherin
Virginia Woolf - Ravenclaw
J. R. R. Tolkien - Ravenclaw
Toni Morrison - Gryffindor
Mary Shelley - Ravenclaw
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ravenclaw
Charles Dickens - Gryffindor
Charlotte Brontë - Gryffindor
Emily Brontë - Slytherin
Anne Brontë - Hufflepuff
George Eliot - Gryffindor
Louisa May Alcott - Gryffindor
Joseph Conrad - Slytherin
Jack London - Gryffindor
Henry James - Ravenclaw
Bram Stoker - Slytherin
Franz Kafka - Slytherin
E. M. Forster - Hufflepuff
Ayn Rand - Slytherin
Joseph Heller - Slytherin
Harper Lee - Hufflepuff
J. D. Salinger - Slytherin
Arthur Conan Doyle - Ravenclaw
Agatha Christie - Slytherin
Roald Dahl - Ravenclaw
Frank Herbert - Slytherin
Octavia E. Butler - Ravenclaw
Vladimir Nabokov - Slytherin
This is obviously not a complete list (there are 50 here) and there will be a follow-up with more in the future! I am very sure about some of these (anyone who has ever met me or looked at my blog knows how hard it was to restrain myself from putting Oscar Wilde first) but I’d love to hear other people’s opinions if anyone has some!
Special thanks to @amapofyourstars for helping me sort these people even though she had little to no interest in any of their lives.
"Grey time-worn marbles
Hold the pure Muses;
In their cool gallery,
By yellow Tiber,
They still look fair."
- Consolation by Matthew Arnold
Just Garland
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