Midnight Lines

I fear I ought not to have run away from that school! Things seem so different in the cold light of morning, don't they? What Mr. Phillotson will say I don't know! Source: Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you wake up at night and think of it—years after—and go hot and cold all over. I don't pretend to say that steamboat floated all the time. Source: Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

I received Lanyon's condemnation partly in a dream; it was partly in a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed. I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people. Source: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

Sometimes to be sure I could not, for the very soul of me, avoid falling into sudden spasmodic passions with him. For it was exceeding difficult to bear in mind all the time those strange peculiarities, privileges, and unheard of exemptions, forming the tacit stipulations on Bartleby's part under which he remained in my office. Source: Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

Phœbe recognized it as the same which had passed upward, as through her dream, in the night-time. The approaching guest, whoever it might be, appeared to pause at the head of the staircase; he paused twice or thrice in the descent; he paused again at the foot. Source: The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

_"Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? … For now should I have lain still and been quiet. I should have slept: then had I been at rest!"_. Source: Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

I heard: 'Military post—doctor—two hundred miles—quite alone now—unavoidable delays—nine months—no news—strange rumours.' They approached again, just as the manager was saying, 'No one, as far as I know, unless a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.' Who was it they were talking about now? Source: Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

A change had come over me. It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. I received Lanyon's condemnation partly in a dream; it was partly in a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed. Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

That was clever, for really I wasn't alone a bit! As soon as it was moonlight, and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her. Source: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach. Source: Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

See! he lifts his ineffectual hand, and tries the frame. All safe! But is that a smile?—is it not, rather a frown of deadly import, that darkens over the shadow of his features? Source: The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

"Does it really seem so to you?" said she, smiling with quick curiosity. "Well, that's strange; but I feel just the same about you, Jude. When you are gone away I seem such a coldhearted—" Source: Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets. I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night. Source: Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

Once, very early in my career, it had totally failed me; since then I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, to treble the amount; and these rare uncertainties had cast hitherto the sole shadow on my contentment. Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. Source: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry

This building too, which of week-days hums with industry and life, at nightfall echoes with sheer vacancy, and all through Sunday is forlorn. And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage! Source: Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville #love #lovequotes #hopecore #soulmates #poetry