[felonwort]

strawberry moon

[shisasan]

𝚃.𝚂. 𝙴𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚝, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝙼𝚎𝚗 (𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟻)

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. September 1926, featured in Selected Diaries

[vexheart]

[artssie]

On the Heights (c.1909) by Charles Courtney Curran

[dailyclassicart]

Peter Taylor Quidley - "On the Balcony, Chatham" (1988)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; "You Are with the Wrong Person" (via lunamonchtuna)

[forbearing]

thank you anais nin

[mournfulroses]

Hélène Cixous, from her book titled The Book of Promethea, originally published in 1983

[shisasan]

a little buzz of life and love.

August 6th 7th 8th or something like that [1960] Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

[petaltexturedskies]

Linda Pastan, from "The Months"

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

[intrepidgirlreader]

“Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed. They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car. They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it.”

— The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

[dailyclassicart]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - "Lady Lilith" (1873)

[dailyclassicart]

Georg Achen - "Interior" (1907)

[hembrista]

Bela Lugosi about his female fans 

[unhookedwings]

Detail from the painting Iris (1886) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)