#b2020

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

books i've read in 2020 ≡ almost like being in love

❝ falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. like pulling off an a in history or finally facing the truth about yourself. ❞

The past devours those naive enough to forget it. 

But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.

We hunt the flame. The light in the darkness. The good this world deserves.

@booksociety‘s love is in the air event - serpent & dove ( shelby mahurin )