Marelys

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[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[shisasan]

21 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[shisasan]

that rare kind of love, dark, deep, ravenous, all-consuming.

to be looked at with piercing eyes full of desire, devotion and delirium, stripped down to the bones of your soul.

🜍 ⟡ ⟢

[achillesinhighheels]

[achillesinhighheels]

[achillesinhighheels]

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

[shisasan]

the feminine urge to read and expand her mind, because she was never meant to stay the same.

🜍 ⟡ ⟢

[shisasan]

April 19, 1963 Anne Sexton, "Love Song" from The Complete Poems

[shisasan]

16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[shisasan]

April 16, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[shisasan]

Do you want to go to the library and then take a walk?

August 15, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[scorpionlafemme]

[radical-revolution]

[shisasan]

17 April, 1926 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[shisasan]

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin