I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
— Haruki Murakami
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There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.
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Sometimes we want our bodies to do a better job at showing the things that hurt us, the stories we keep inside us.
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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.
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Best fucking thing I’ve ever read.
[The Queen Below - @hynpos]
“I started sleeping more than usual. I guess I’m just in love with a thought, that only my dreams allow me to have.”
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