My Version Of Book Erik

oh dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”

— Vincent van Gogh

me coming in from the rain before I read Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera: bit wet out there

me coming in from the rain after I read Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera: YOU'RE LOOKING AT ME BECAUSE I AM ALL WET?... Oh, my dear, it's raining cats and dogs outside!

Who. Was. The. Genius.

PERFECTION I’M GONNA CRY

Duality of the man

The best of the best.

"Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves." ... "The kind that gives you a thrill, when you think of it."

— The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

The angels wept tonight.

"Tonight, I gave you my soul, and I am dead."

"...your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor ever received so fair a gift."

Outside the Opera, Paris - Jean-Georges Béraud - 1879

Yes, in fact

you ever just going about your day and then the weight of 'he had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar' hits you and you want to launch yourself over a cliff due to the sheer emotion

[…] for when one has fire within and a soul, one cannot keep bottling them up – better to burn than to burst […]

Vincent van Gogh, from ‘The Letters of Vincent van Gogh’ ⁠— Wilhelmina van Gogh c. summer or autumn 1887, tr. Arnold Pomerans