[lunamonchtuna]

— Sandra Cisneros, from Rodrigo de Barro (via lunamonchtuna)

[petaltexturedskies]

Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

[weltenwellen]

An Interview with Richard Siken

[petaltexturedskies]

Louise Glück, from "October" in Averno

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, The Years

[petaltexturedskies]

Louise Glück, from "Telescope" in Averno: Poems

[quotespile]

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me…”

— Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

[weltenwellen]

Kahlil Gibran, from "Love Song of The Wave", Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Love

[petaltexturedskies]

I wear perfume to intensify who I am. That's why I can't use fragrances that go against me. Wearing perfume is an instinctive wisdom. Perfume is an art. And like all art, it requires some self-knowledge.

Clarice Lispector

[funeral]

Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a poem titled "Polly's Tree," featured in The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

[delta-breezes]

“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

— L M Montgomery

[paper-fairy]

“It’s such a secret place, the land of tears”

— The Little Prince

[niimph]

“The star is a tear on the heavenly blue.”

— Antonio Machado, “Before the pale canvas of the afternoon,” Border of a Dream: Selected Poems, transl. by Willis Barnstone

[flowerytale]

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

[heavensghost]

but I knew how to dress it up

[petaltexturedskies]

Sergei Yesenin, from "I Will No More Go Roaming" in The Selected Poetry of Sergei Yesenin