[delbaar]

[silent-breathing-deactivated201]

black swan photo credit goes to my mum

[deadlynightshade26]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

ophiraa:

I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it

— T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party (Mariner, 1964)

[xostargirlox]

Le Baiser — Stephan Abel Sinding (1902)

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[toiich]

Purple Noon (1960), dir. René Clément

[pale-blood]

[tristealven]

“to be half asleep with love”

— Sappho, from 7 Greeks (tr. Guy Davenport)

[toiich]

L'Enfer (1994), dir. Claude Chabrol

[nixscriptum]

[sentimentalbeing2001]

The lily in the valley will wither. The flowers in the forest will decay. But this friendship will last forever, when all other things fade away.

March 4, 1885.

From a beautiful notebook I bought in the flea

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

…something else entirely. Something maybe there was no word for. Not in any language like ours, at least.

– Nat Cassidy, from “Generation,” I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours (Shortwave Publishing, 2026)

[gelatinatremolante]

Cold War (2018) dir. Pawel Pawlikowski

[ownpearls]

I found parts of my soul right here

[shisasan]

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

[toiich]

Masculin Feminin (1966), dir. Jean-Luc Godard