tsarevna;

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does.”

[cithaerons]

Leila Chatti, Night Lament in Hergla 

[thoughtkick]

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown

[rotvn]

no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse

[aurelie-dupont]

Paris Opera corps de ballet in Nureyev’s Swan Lake 

Photo © Ann Ray

[inthedarktrees]

Margie Cato, New York, 1950 | Lillian Bassman

[lizzieshelby]

peaky blinders 5.03 “strategy” (2019, dir. anthony byrne) // hatch (2015, heather christle) // peaky blinders 6.05 “the road to hell” (2022, dir. anthony byrne)

[deviika]

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

[letterful]

[chateauofmymind]

margaret atwood / louise glück

[unleashed-imagination]

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

— Franz Kafka

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

[metamorphesque]

Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)

[psikonauti]

Hélène Béland (Canadian,b.1949)

Light catcher, 2012

Oil on linen

[weltenwellen]

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

[birkacyaraliruh]

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; "The Bloody Chamber,"

[paolo-streito-1264]

Albert Watson. Charlotte Flossaut, New Mexico, 1988.