Reblog?
#it made me think about lots of things
#AND IT WAS SO FUCKING GOOD
#anna karenina
#leo tolstoy
#A+ book
wow ok it’s hard to recover your brain and emotional system once you finish “Anna Karenina”
My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it
“Anna Karenina” - Leo Tolstoy
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 11 (via jessiohhh)
She felt that side by side with the love that united them there had grown up some evil spirit of strife, which she could not cast out of his heart and still less of her own
“Anna Karenina” - Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy (via jsallo)
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via emceecapitalgee)
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair
“Anna Karenina” - Leo Tolstoy
I always loved you, and if one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be
“Anna Karenina” - Leo Tolstoy
She had all the charm and freshness of youth but was no longer a child
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. But if you don’t love me, it would be better and more honest to say so
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via peopleorstars)
