once-a-polecat:

adventuresofwaverly:

green-great-dragon:

stellaluna33:

When somebody shares a quote by a famous author like it’s something the author personally said and believed, but you know it was actually spoken by a character you’re not supposed to like… 😐

one time I saw on Pinterest a cutesy little pink flowery image with the quote “‘as soon as I entered the house, I had singled you out as the companion of my future life’ -Pride and Prejudice” and like

ladies that is a mr collins quote 😭

My favorite example of this (not quite a character but a commonly misinterpreted quote) is Mary Oliver’s quote:

“He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.”

Often quoted as if it’s romantic. But here’s the thing

It was written by a lesbian. About a heron. She was writing about a large wading bird.

My friends, have you ever really seen a heron?

Whole series of supposedly wise quotes from Hamlet – from “to thine own self be true” to “neither a borrower nor a lender be”– and they all come out of freakin’ Polonius’s mouth