[fravery]

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”

Carrie Jones Need

Kevin Kia

[fravery]

Jeremy Barlow The Grande Canal, Venice

[meislight]

[placeeee]

[leahberman]

[unreadable]

[myfuzzypickle]

[museiums]

yukiko noritake

[expressions-of-nature]

by LARAM

[placeeee]

[expressions-of-nature]

Sagres, Portugal by Luca Severin

[maureen2musings]

Turks and Caicos Islands

sanddollarimages

[placeeee]

[zimtkrieg]

[overclassy]

[derangedrhythms]

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books. Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass—an hourglass that drains grain by grain. Literature gives me life, and life kills me.

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

[bluemaher]