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riley | xxii | she/her | writer | romantique | (formally studyspirc) | my storygraph

[omar-little]

when richard siken said “and no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won’t tell them”

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “I Worried”, Devotions

[arjuna-vallabha]

A maenad and a satyr, roman art

[afinaland]

The library of Umberto Eco

[brittlebodies]

Saint Sebastian in art, detail (Guido Reni, Nicolas Régnier, Paul Delaroche, Jusepe de Ribera)

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

[flowerytale]

“Dear friend, — Your sweetness intimidates” Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Sarah Tuckerman (January 1880)

[queenofnots]

I wish pets lived longer, cigarettes were good for you, orgasms lasted 5 minutes, and that the second cup of coffee was as good as the first.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

jasper texas 1998, Lucille Clifton

[ID: hope bleeds slowly from my mouth]

[vonjugendrenaissance777]

The peasant girl, Joan d’Arc, hears the voices and angels calling her to defend France. Tinted Charcoal, Conte and Pastel on paper. 2020.

[macrolit]

Amazing women authors and their typewriters Daphne du Maurier, Marguerite Duras, Margaret Mitchell, Francoise Sagan, Sylvia Plath, Carson McCullers, Agatha Christie, Lorraine Hansberry, Doris Lessing

[metamorphesque]

— Virginia Woolf, an excerpt from a diary entry

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[empospective]

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

But I protect myself, I surround myself with books, their silence does not demand anything, they exist , they are alive , they are for anyone to open, unlike us human being.

–Bo Carpelan, tr. by David McDuff , from "Urwind". Published c. 1993

[optimistic-nihilist]

[herhmione]

[metamorphesque]

Jean-Joseph Perraud, Le Désespoir (Despair)