Dearest, Darling, Mine.

Hell is only a city, and you are not home tonight.

[antigonick]

“You’re supposed to grow out of horridness, aren’t you? I don’t think I ever grew out of mine. Sometimes I think it’s still inside me, like something nasty I swallowed, that got stuck…”

—

Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

[seaymph]

“There’s something fairy-tale-like about it, which is perfect, because fairy tales are all about innocence and ill will and the inevitability of terrible things. They’re all about the moment when the girl is no longer who she was.”

— Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You   (via paper-fairy)

[met-greekroman-art]

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask), Greek and Roman Art

Medium: Terracotta

Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/244828

[molly-bl00m]

Richard Siken. Crush, Yale University Press, 2005. #my photos

[rococobean]

[reverie-quotes]

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

— Richard Siken, "The Worm King's Lullaby"

[poetic-questions]

—Richard Siken, "Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede"

[saltedume]

[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[lunamonchtuna]

[ i love you, and that is the beginning and end of everything. ] [ you have bewitched me body and soul, and i love, love, love you. ] [ my days begin with your name and nights end with your breath. ] [ i miss you even more than i could have believed; and i was prepared to miss you a good deal. ]

[ when i don’t touch you, it’s a mistake in any life, in each place, and forever. ] [ i don’t know what to do without you, i don’t know where to put my hands. ] [ i think i made you up inside my head. ] [ if i loved you less, i might be able to talk about it more. ] [ i wish i could leave you my love, but my heart is a mess. ]

[ on purpose, i love you. on purpose. ] [ i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. ] [ because this mess i made, i made with love. ]

[ sorry about the blood in your mouth — i wish it was mine. ] [ you said i killed you: haunt me then. ] [ tell me we’re dead, and i’ll love you even more. ] [ tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. ] [ these are bodies possessed by light — tell me we’ll never get used to it. ]

[ i have loved you, i have to deal with that. ]

[lunamonchtuna]

when Clementine Von Radics said "I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again." and when Lemony Snicket said “I will love you if I never see you again, And I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”

[drunkwhenimadethis]

I hate to say it and I hate to know it but if you crave intimacy and deep relation you truly have to muster the courage to go first.

[theinternetarchive]

Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life North American; United States, pub. 1994

[madamelesfressange]

Staircase, A.A. Polovtsov’s Mansion on Bolshaya Morskaya Street, St. Petersburg

[etlamourdoux]

Nona Limmen.

[loveridden1999]

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

[loveridden1999]

everyone say thank you toni morrison

[madamelesfressange]

Anima et ignis (Soul and Fire) Eyes

detailed view of the painting Portrait of Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin by Ilya Repin

"Portrait of a Peasant Woman" by Domenico Induno.

close-up detail from the painting Mary Magdalene in the Cave (1868) by French artist Hugues Merle.

detail from the painting Mother and Children (1879) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Gabrielle Cot (detail), 1889

This image is a detailed close-up of a painting titled A Young Woman with Veil, created between approximately 1880 and 1910 by the Italian Academic painter Eugene de Blaas (also known as Eugene von Blaas)

This image is a close-up detail of the eyes from the painting "The Last Day of Pompeii" by Russian artist Karl Bryullov, created between 1830 and 1833.

"Madonna in Glory" by the Italian Baroque painter Carlo Dolci.

The painting depicts the exact moment Medusa by Caravaggio is beheaded by Perseus, capturing her final expression of sheer terror

Mary Magdalene as a Hermit (specifically the 1833 version) by Italian artist Francesco Hayez.