Matthew the Lion

In losing sight of land, may we find the stars

[mournfulroses]

Mary Shelley, from her novel titled "Frankenstein," originally published in 1818

[saudi-966]

[cjamswriting]

[vigilantkilliforniakatholixxx]

[aesthyr]

Carl Frederic Aagaard (1833-1895)

[astrolugo]

[wolvenry]

“Dearest, in terror, let us run to one another – yes?”

— Salomea Andronikova, from a letter to Teffi Alexandrovna c. January 1927 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[thesorceresstemple]

Lilith, by A.J. Hamilton

[sunkissedstarlit]

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Henry Winter, before he took his own life in a small hotel in Vermont.

[whe-renot]

[derangedrhythms]

If I shook you up then know that you shook me up because you are very intense and very beautiful and so are your words...

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— Philip Legler, 28th April 1966

[kharonn]

[rufiiioo]

[plutorichh]

[kaceycapo]

[maliusaidh]

[laclefdescoeurs]

Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin, 1828, Carl Gustav Carus