without you i might blow

 “An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite the time, the place, and despite the circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangled, but will never be broken.”

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“When I kissed her I was so full of desire between one kiss and another that I felt I would lose her if we stopped kissing.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Ibrahim Muhawi, from “Journal of an Ordinary Grief,”

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Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

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I reach the end of you only to find another beginning.

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[petaltexturedskies]

Wendy Cope, June to December: Summer Villanelle

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— jay vespertine; from the usual: full moon insanity

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Yiyun Li

[metamorphesque]

— Stolen Moments, Kim Addonizio

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[limerencs]

cemetery of laeken, brussels.

the story of a marble worker evrard flignot who devastated by the death of his wife built a mausoleum for her. at first look inside, there is a mourner reaching out to an empty wall. but, once a year, on the day of the summer solstice, the sun draws a light that recalls this love for almost a century.

[fiery-kitty]

“The Knight Raymondin and the Fairy Mélusine” – Jean Dampt (1895)

Steel, ivory, gold