Reticence.

I never want to become cruel

[victoriaelyse]

Nicola Samorì - In principio era la fine (2016)Olio su tavola - 40 x 30 cm

[quotefeeling]

“I think part of the reason why we hold on to something so tightly is because we fear something as great won’t happen twice.”

— Unknown

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[mournfulroses]

Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "A Toast,"

[paradoxical-dichotomy]

Can it be? That my love is truly enough?

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "On The Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad,"

[mournfulroses]

Ottessa Moshfegh, from "Eileen: A Novel," originally published in 2015

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[reemillustrated]

[kosmogrl]

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

[daily-spooky]

[marejadilla]

Harald Sohlberg, “Fisherman’s Cottage”, 1906, oil on canvas. Norwegian Neo-romantic painter, 1869-1935.

[1five1two]

'Nocturne'. Granville Redmond.

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"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

[toiich]

Permanent Vacation (1980), dir. Jim Jarmusch

[methpool]