#shakespeare

"He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…"

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

"[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!"

"Yesterday I memorized Shakespeare, and tomorrow I'm also going to memorize his first name."

"Educated men are so impressive!"

"Love is holy."

"To be, or not to be: what a question!"

"I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table."Macbeth"

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

"[Thine] face is not worth sunburning."

"These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume"

"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."

"How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?"

"Sweets to the sweet."

"I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled."

"Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death."

"Thou art a very ragged Wart."

"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it."

"He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close."

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"