[fairydrowning]

"Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe."

– Andrea Gibson

[fairydrowning]

"Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

[fairydrowning]

"Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[mythbehavior]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

The warm grass under the autumn sky and the smell of dead leaves told me that I had certainly not left this world…

– Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

[pianouran]

Ludwig Drahosch

[fairydrowning]

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

– George Orwell

[fairydrowning]

"All the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding."

– Franz Kafka

"If you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand."

– Richard Siken

[le-vive-vintage-blog]

[modedamour]

instagram @modedamour

[beljar]

Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.

Ivan Turgenev, from Fathers and Sons, 1862

[hamoodmood-deactivated20250309]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

The warm grass under the autumn sky and the smell of dead leaves told me that I had certainly not left this world…

– Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

[joeinct]

Three Nuns, Park Avenue, NYC, Photo by Frank Paulin, 1956

[mythbehavior]

[marmarinos]

Neoclassical French bust of Antinous, dated to the 18th century. Marble. Source: Sotheby’s.

[pradadada6]

Maybe you’re in the middle of what you prayed for.