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'dying swan - natalia marakova' in max waldman on dance: photographs (1988)

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

#julio cortazar #love #prose #to read #decadent

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“Desire, I was only beginning to understand […], comes in many forms, and some of them are violent. We learn this in the stories we are told about love. Struck by an angel’s arrow or drugged by a loveflower, desire wounds, and I had felt its blue sting. The thought of him all day, like pushing on a bruise.”

— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst For Salt

#to read #madelaine lucas #desire #prose

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Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "Comfort Me With Apples," originally published in 2021

#catherynne m valente #prose

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mr. & Mrs Holland, featured in The Letters of Emily Dickinson

#love #emily dickinson #correspondence

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Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf, featured in The Letters of Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf

#vita sackville west #correspondence

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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

#l m montgomery #prose #december #winter

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#mermaids

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The plum you're going to eat next summer

by Gayle Brandeis

The plum you’re going to eat next summer doesn’t exist yet; its potential lives inside a tree you’ll never see in an orchard you’ll never see, will be touched by a certain number of water droplets before it reaches you, by certain angles of light, by a finite amount of bugs and dust motes and hands you’ll never know. The plum you are going to eat next summer will gather sugar, gather mass, will harden at its center so it can soften toward your mouth. The plum you’re going to eat next summer doesn’t know you exist. The plum you are going to eat next summer is growing just for you.

#Gayle Brandeis #fruit #poetry #summer #a tag of wonderful things

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Whimsical Children’s Book Illustration by Inga Moore

#Inga Moore #the secret garden #garden #illustrations #woods

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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

#Zadie Smith #prose #love #to read

Three Rules for a Lasting Happy Marriage

Stay positive. A toxic habit that plagues many marriages is bringing all of one’s negative emotions home because that is where it feels safe to express them. The result is that partners impose a deep negative burden on the one relationship that should bring them the most joy. The research findings cited above clearly show that a strong long-term pair bond relies on abundant positive emotionality, whereas negativity weakens it. Being positive does not occur spontaneously: You must resolve to bring your happiness home, not just your unhappiness, and endeavor to share it.

#marriage #relationships #the atlantic