[quotespile]

“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.”

— Toni Morrison, Jazz

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. a sight near the sea

[wike-wabbits]

A metal heart decorated with small springs that unfolds to reveal paper covered with hand-written prayers in Italian and a small image of the Virgin Mary. Artemis Gallery

[nevver]

Last light, Mary Mattingly

[weepingwidar]

Caleb Hahne Quintana (Mexican-American, 1993) - A Flicker in the Ancient Rhythm (2025)

[lunamonchtuna]

“…And who here is not buried in another person's heart?”

— Richard Jackson, from "Filling in the Graves at a Cherokee Site" (via lunamonchtuna)

[petaltexturedskies]

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself. We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. IV: 1944-1947

[lifeinpoetry]

The wound, / the past, is still bleeding.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Two, Bakandamiya

[classicalcanvas]

Seascape, Night Effect (1866) by Claude Monet

[wooi-9]

أن تجد الخلاص في شخص آخر‏ إنها أضمن طريقة للانهيار

‏سيمون دي بوفوار، العصر الناضج ج1

[itres]

بقية الأيام ليست إلا محاولات يائسه للخروج من جلباب ذلك اليوم

[nemfrog]

The student's room. The pink fairy book. 1897. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.

Internet Archive

[7pleiades7]

Eve (1885), (detail), by Anna Lea Merritt (American, 1844-1930), signed and dated 'Anna Lea Merritt/1885.' (lower left), oil on canvas, 30 x 43 in. (76.8 x 109.2 cm.), Private Collection

[dailyclassicart]

Thomas Cooper Gotch - "The Lantern Parade" (c. 1918)

[b-r-i-n-i-c-l-e]

[wooi-9]

أنتِ شُجاعةٌ جدًا ‏وهادئه ‏لدرجة أنّني أنسى أنكِ تُعانين

‏همنغواي

XD

[classicalcanvas]

The Manneport, Rock Arch West of Etretat (1883) by Claude Monet