k reynolds

evil women lover

[lsbnlvr]

The lesbian experience really is just 70% yearning and 30% grief

[petaltexturedskies]

Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free and kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. To stop irritation by the assurance that nothing is worth irritation. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones.

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 2 January 1931, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. V: 1936-1941

[petaltexturedskies]

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

Mary Oliver, "Dogfish" in New and Selected Poems

[soulswans]

in the club asking people if they prefer paperback or hardcover books

[petaltexturedskies]

I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

[oo111111]

Rian Phin

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from "Late Bloomer", Instructions for Traveling West

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. April 1929, featured in Selected Diaries

[supahgays]

That’s my ship. (x)

[soravagemecrazy]

As a girl or woman, raise yourself to be an intellectual. Raise yourself to be a reader, a traveller, a curious explorer. Raise girls who are independent livers and thinkers, who are critical of standard narratives and status quos and societal and religious dogma. Girls and women will never benefit from being naïve, stuck in one place, unaware, ignorant, out of options, close minded etc besides deriving from these states a false sense of safety, but the patriarchy reaps massive profits from afflicting these conditions.

[classicalcanvas]

Lamia (1909) by John William Waterhouse

[mournfulroses]

Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015

[itsnotwhatimlike]

embarrassment has good bones

[hunxi-after-hours]

“Besides, readers aren’t viewers; they recognize their pleasure as different from that of being entertained. Once you’ve pressed the on button, the TV goes on, and on, and on, and all you have to do is sit and stare. But reading is active, an act of attention, of absorbed alertness—not all that different from hunting, in fact, or from gathering. In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won’t do the work for you. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not “interactive” with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, “Staying Awake”

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mary Oliver

[petaltexturedskies]

Frances Hodgson Burnett, from the secret garden

[stillgotscars]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath