penniless at the wishing-well

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

[shisasan]

Amor Vincit Omnia by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, detail, 1601–1602, oil on canvas 

[gothredy]

[librocubicularista]

“She who has let herself go, who prepares the meals and does the dishes and wanders, with no particular purpose, from room to room. She who finds herself strangely glad to be in the presence of someone avaricious and heartless and uncaring.”

— Margaret Atwood, from “Loulou: Or, The Domestic Life of the Language,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[librocubicularista]

“Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras, secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.”

— Pablo Neruda (via 69rooms)

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Oil on canvas , by Ivan Alifan

[literatureandtrees]

the voice of the sea speaks to the soul. the touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace

-kate chopin

*i had a moment as i walked closer to the water and cried for 5 minutes. it was so cleansing*

[nevver]

June gloom, Joshua Amirthasingh

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Greg Girard

[89rooms]

But now it's gettin' late And the moon is climbin' high I want to celebrate See it shinin' in your eye Because I'm still in love with you I want to see you dance again Because I'm still in love with you On this harvest moon

Neil Young - 'Harvest Moon'

[snailmailthings]

Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn (2006) / The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch (1990)

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— Tina Chang, from “Color.”

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer McNair Evans

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Photographer Galit Rodan

[shisasan]

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra originally published 1873