Jane Austen - "Sense And Sensibility"

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“I feel numbered, and constricted all over. I barely fit inside myself.” - Clarice Lispector, Complete Stories

1. Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life / 2. Su Xinyu / 3. Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life / 4. Su Xinyu / 5. Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life / 6. Su Xinyu / 7. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being / 8. Delfina Karmona / 9. Andrés Cerpa, The Vault / 10. Delfina Karmona / 11. Emily Dickinson / 12. Delfina Karmona / 13. Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900

“For a moment I’m twenty-two again, watching my innocence slip through my fingers with equal parts eagerness and terror.”

-M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall || Anna Akhmatova || V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic [Shades of Magic #1] || Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot || Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.

Internet Archive

“You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

"the skeleton flower is a white flower that turns translucent when it rains"

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath