#1

Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Miss Bennet, are you engaged to Mr. Darcy?!

Elizabeth: pic.twitter.com/wnpuDI1tOD

— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) August 14, 2019

#2

no holden caufield but people do be kinda phony

— giabuchi (@jaboukie) January 30, 2020

#3

can’t really figure out a way to phrase this but mr darcy really is like…. a reverse manic pixie dream girl huh. like, a manic pixie dream girl for women. a depressed elf nightmare man.

— pale chub (@levraanan) September 14, 2018

#4

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin!
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, but—
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

— Avery Edison (@aedison) March 18, 2018

#5

Today I picked up Great Expectations and was suddenly struck with the knowledge that Miss Havisham is probably not very old at all, actually, so I looked it up, and at the beginning of the book, she is, according to Dickens' notes, "scarcely forty."

— Kristen Hanley Cardozo #COLA4ALL (@KHandozo) February 15, 2020

#6

my 2 month old: i cant sleep daddy i’m afraid of frankenstein

me: haha dont you mean frankenstein’s monster

my 3 month old: i do not. personally i find unethical and irresponsible scientific practice far more terrifying than any physical being and so should you

— no (@punished_picnic) August 7, 2019

#7

There are two wolves inside you. One is Virginia Woolf. The other is Beowulf. You are an Introduction to English Literature syllabus.

— Austin Gilkeson (@osutein) June 9, 2019

#8

wife: I wish you'd stop bringing your work home with you

Dr Frankenstein: he has a name

wife: DOES HE

— Elvish Presley (@_elvishpresley_) January 6, 2019

#9

you: let’s get this bread

j.d. salinger, an intellectual: let’s catch this rye

— iain robertson (@yoiain) January 6, 2019

#10

no one:
jay gatsby: https://t.co/EGPTO5kW8l

— yohana desta (@yohanadesta) December 6, 2019

#11

her: my fantasy is eating whipped cream off each other, what’s yours

JRR Tolkien: *big breath in*

— Christopher Ashman (@CAshmanActor) September 17, 2019

#12

the green light from great gatsby was from a juul

— kate (@kate_stumps) June 12, 2018

#13

Personally, I feel Romeo and Juliet could’ve handled the situation better

— Alléy Manyol (@ScHoolBoy__A) June 10, 2019

#14

169 years since Tolstoy bought the unnecessary horse pic.twitter.com/Z9u1dzqIxr

— Elle Hunt (@elle_hunt) January 25, 2020

#15

Stay past the credits of Little Women to see Jane Eyre step out of the shadows and tell Jo, “I’m putting a team together.”

— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) December 28, 2019

#16

The most depressing part of LITTLE WOMEN (1869) is not when Beth dies but when Jo's short story wins a prize of $100, reminding any fellow writers reading the book that freelance rates have remained roughly stable SINCE THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA

— Jennifer Morrow (@jenniferemorrow) December 27, 2019

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