Alyxandra Harvey

Novelist, poet, Mr. Darcy devotee.
My books include The Drake Chronicles, Haunting Violet, Stolen Away and Briar Rose

Literature Meme: (1/7) Characters
↳ Elizabeth Bennet 

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones. Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\

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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released Natalie Goldberg  (via middecember)

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It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him. Izîl // Daughter of Smoke and Bone // Laini Taylor (via apleasureto-burn)

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