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[xshayarsha]

Revenge is a form of desire. It is on the side of things living.

Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Preface to Hekabe (via xshayarsha)

[thewriterscaravan]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The people I find irresistible are those in whom the child was not killed. The qualities of openness, trust, inquisitiveness, tenderness, eagerness, enthusiasm, others undefinable, come from the child in us and are the source of charm. The laughter and the smile that do not calculate, the spontaneity that is not arrested. I cannot remember “adult” charm or whether it even exists.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966 (via yesdarlingido)

[nevver]

Movie matinée

[nevver]

Dune, Maggie Koerth

[nevver]

Everybody’s doing it ★ @itsPeteski on instagram

[nevver]

Jorie Graham

[nevver]

Like me ★ @itsPeteski on instagram

[studyous]

Sandra Cisneros, The House On Mango Street (1984)

[wellconstructedsentences]

Am I Esperanza? Yes and no. And then again, perhaps maybe. One thing I know for certain: you, the reader, are Esperanza. So I should ask: what happened to you? Did you stay in school? Did you go to college? Did you have that baby? Were you a victim? Did you tell anyone about it or did you keep it inside? Did you let it overpower and eat you? Did you wind up in jail? Did someone harm you? Did you hurt someone? … Will you go back to school? Find someone to take care of the baby while you’re finishing your diploma? Go to college? Work two jobs so you can do it? Get help from the substance abuse people? Walk out of a bad marriage? Send paychecks to the woman who bore your child? Learn to be the human being you are not ashamed of? Did you run away from home? Did you join a gang? Did you get fired? Did you give up? Did you get angry? You are Esperanza. You cannot forget who you are.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (via wellconstructedsentences)

[natgeofound]

Two dancers in costume stand between the columns of Poseidon’s Temple, Greece, 1930. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic Creative

[natgeofound]

Shell hunters in sunglasses examine a lion’s paw, a prized find on Sanibel Island in Florida, 1959. Photograph by Paul Zahl, National Geographic Creative

[nevver]

Mid-Century Midnight, Tom Blachford

[artfoli]

Details in White

Princess Alexandra of Wales, 1863, by Richard Lauchert.

An Elegant Bouquet, 1886, by Gustave Jean Jacquet.

Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon, c. 1640, by Anthony van Dyck.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, 1865, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Marie Antoinette in a Muslin dress, 1783, by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Fredrika Dorotea Vilhelmina, 1826, by Joseph Karl Stieler.

The Comtesse d'Egmont Pignatelli in Spanish Costume, 1763, by Alexander Roslin.

Presumed Portrait of Miss White, 1838, by Joseph-Désiré Court.

Pea Blossoms, 1890, by Edward Poynter.

The Young Queen Victoria, 1842, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[dancing-wombat]

Still waiting for this to happen

[nevver]

Back in bed ★ instagram.com/itsPeteski

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

But there’s only one person here. That is scarier. Lonelier. Liberating.

Susan Sontag, from Where the Stress Falls: Essays; “Singleness” (via violentwavesofemotion)