I'm a total sucker for doomed love stories. What are your favorites? The one that stands out most in my memory is The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which is incredible -- it has that famous line about how "between grief and nothing I will take grief." Yeesh. It kills me!
Other gems:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (duh)
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
anything Anais Nin wrote about Henry and June Miller
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (containing this wonderful line: "Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly...and when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.")
This is technically a poem, but "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud often fulfills my late night "doomed love story cravings."
How 'bout you?!
Other gems:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (duh)
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
anything Anais Nin wrote about Henry and June Miller
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (containing this wonderful line: "Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly...and when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.")
This is technically a poem, but "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud often fulfills my late night "doomed love story cravings."
How 'bout you?!