No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
How does one go back to the things they once loved?
I've been trying to write. I've been trying to read. I've been trying to drink coffee.
I've been trying to trace my steps back to my first loves.
I didn't know going back to those things that you once loved was hard. It scared me how things that I once said were a part of my soul feel like strangers.
Going back to things I loved before is like meeting an old version of me that I didn't even know I'd forgotten.
It's painful. But it also feels like I am slowly healing.
– Pablo Neruda, “One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII” from The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, edited by Mark Eisner.
"And when I turned to face grief, I saw that it was just love in a heavy coat."
- Shannon Barry
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. - Sir Thomas Moore
“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.”
— Holly Black
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