quotes – persephone's corner

Hannibal, p. 37

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
(via books-n-quotes)

likeniobe:

heart and tongue in hamlet 1.2.164; henry vi 3.3.15-16; king lear 2.4.325-327; macbeth 4.3.246-247; richard ii 2.1.237-238; taming of the shrew 4.3.78-79; titus andronicus 2.4.36-37.

aynagus:

“The night itself wanted to touch her,”

— Peter Redgrove, from “Water-Witch, Wood-Witch, Wine-Witch,” wr. c. 1968 (via violentwavesofemotion)

she’s the girl with a
fairytale face
but her mouth screams
like a wolf’s

words of the consultant, minjeong son (via perseaphonie)

ibuzoo:

“Love me through the darkness and I will love you all the way through the light.”

— thoughts #146 | r.m

We were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly.

Vladimir Nabokov (via quotemadness)

violentwavesofemotion:

Sappho, tr. by Anne Carson, from “If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho,” (x)

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe
(via macrolit)