Silence and Solitude

[feral-ballad]

Claude de Burine, tr. Gloria Still, from Serving Blood: New Poems by French Women; “The Prophet”

[thoughtful-blonde]

[starlightacademia]

— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (via starlightacademia)

[leaveful]

[callousedhope]

[floralls]

by Irina Iriser

[callousedhope]

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts, and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."

E. Merrill Root

[girlfriendsinjeans]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[devilishgames]

[6-4s]

by kobietazmgly

[contremineur]

Bernd Webler, Texturologie 224

from here

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[lllllll-lllllll]

[tooferaltobeheard]

He hands me a piece of fabric. Silk. Black. He does not say what it is for. I figure it out when he turns me around and ties it over my eyes. The dark is softer than I expected.

[placeeee]