[funeral]

Peter Hujar: Portraits in Life and Death 

[twirld]

At the hamam (detail) William Arthur Breakspeare

[stlowens]

Anne Sexton, from “Poems 1971-73,” in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton.

[cottageaesthetic]

[dreamdebelle]

<3

[nothingbutloveforyou]

i crave gentle love, gentle hands, gentle words. i just want someone to make me feel safe and calm

[geryone]

Ramadan Lament, Leila Chatti

[0thello]

Saint Veronica (painting), 1652 - 1653.

by Mattia Preti.

[czarnika]

By Sterling Hundley

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from Orlando: A Biography

[trees-and-planets]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[metamorphesque]

— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh (25 September, 1888)

[text ID: I have a terrible clarity of mind at times, when nature is so lovely these days, and then I’m no longer aware of myself and the painting comes to me as if in a dream.]

[art-is-art-is-art]

Evening Star, Franz von Stuck

[robert-hadley]

Castle Ashby Orangery-Near Northhampton, UK. Photo by Haarkon

[primulaceas]

"Have you ever had that feeling—that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"

"I’m still wandering through the streets, looking, sitting by the sea, enjoying the sunshine. I am entirely alone. I don’t know anyone, no one knows me, and for me that is a great pleasure."

hanya yanagihara, a little life / haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle / stand by me (1986), dir. rob reiner / donna tartt, the secret history / phoebe bridgers, i know the end / daniel clowes, ghost world / j.d. salinger, the catcher in the rye / nikos kazantzakis, from a letter to galatea kazantzaki / lora mathis, how to disappear in the modern age / moonlight (2016) dir. barry jenkins / richard siken, the torn-up road / sylvia plath, the bell jar

[primulaceas]

haruki murakami, norwegian wood (1, 2, 3) / flyte, where nobody knows your name / holly warburton (@holly-warbs ) / kanae minato, confessions / wet, still run / laundry (2002) dir. jun'ichi mori / priscilla ahn, fine on the outside / anna syvertsson (@annavonsyfert )

[primulaceas]

oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray / john hiatt, where nobody knows my name / colson whitehead, the nickel boys / dennis wells, alone in a crowd /easha, far away

[kafk-a]

thinking about virginia woolf’s “friendship is never untinged with amorosity”

[fravery]

Peter Edward Mackenzie Brown (is a British Impressionist painter, born 1967)