[petaltexturedskies]

April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. (...) it became all green, all flowery;

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[lustingupon]

[sweetchampagne]

The real luxuries in life are slow mornings, quiet moments, uninterrupted quality time and being with the people you love

[isl-equ-ay]

[petaltexturedskies]

The first section of darkness is the densest, dear, after that, light trembles in -

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Susan Huntington Dickinson, written c. November 1883, from Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

[oystersandcaviar]

[pollen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Wild Pear Tree"

[lustingupon]

[mournfulroses]

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

[lustingupon]

[florial]

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[lustingupon]

[look-sharp-notes]

Coffee break.

[elizabethanism]

"Kindness, kindness, kindness.

I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”

― Susan Sontag (1972)

[lustingupon]

[plum-japonais]

I want to speak to you not about happiness, but about endurance – about how we remain human by recognising each other in the dark.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to Merline, 1919-1922