[ainokiseki]

Do all lovers feel they're inventing something? I know the gestures. I imagined it all, waiting for you.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma. 

[classicalcanvas]

The Garden (1876) by Claude Monet

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to her mother Aurelia, dated 15 June 1962 from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

[venustapolis]

Virgin and Unicorn (Domenichino, 1602)

[petaltexturedskies]

But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vanessa Bell c. June 1926

[crimson-femme]

Stormé DeLarverie (1969)

[petaltexturedskies]

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[sapphicunderground]

The lesbian book that inspired Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet. (Patience and Sarah)

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[nocnitsa]

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

1994.

[petaltexturedskies]

I'm so pathetically intense. I just can't be any other way. You know; you understand. And get this, I'm with you. Don't stop talking to me, please. It's as important as if we were the only people alive.

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to Edward Cohen written c. September 1950, from The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I: 1940-1956

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[etherealacademia]

an annotated compendium of plants printed in the 1600s

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, in a diary entry dated 15 June 1951, from The Unabridged Journals