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Callendar House, Scotland

Photo: Stijn Bollaert

This hotel room in Paris [1080x768]

by antonovakseniya

what is grief if not love persevering?

the year of magical thinking - joan didion // the five stages of grief - linda pastan // untitled (ft. ada limòn’s bright dead things) - @heavensghost // boot theory (crush) - richard siken // fleabag (2016-2019) - created by phoebe waller-bridge // the glass essay (glass, irony and god) - anne carson // lost without you pt. 14 - @qoa // the sea - john banville // what mo(u)rning feels like - houston cofield // the truth about grief - fortesa latifi

Not stopped raining all day, time to up the hygge. via https://ift.tt/3ot1E0a

“That must be why some people like dogs; they can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything — including their own sins.”

— Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) American author

Fairy Tales High Jewelry Peacock Pendant by Jewellery Theatre. White gold, diamonds, blue and pink sapphires, and tourmalines.

The World of Interiors, August 2008. Photo - Roland Beaufre

Come love, make me better than I was.

Come teach me a kinder way               to say my own name.

— Andrea Gibson, from “Good Light,” Lord of the Butterflies

I do not want to be a person.                               I want to be unbearable.

1. anne carson | 2. nick alm | 3. ocean vuong | 4. nick alm | 5. franz kafka | 6. nick alm | 7. emil ferris | 8. nick alm | 9. clarice lispector | 10. nick alm | 11. mary shelley | 12. nick alm | 13. sandra cisneros

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Sappho | Leonardo Bistolfi | Safet Zec | Richard Siken | Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee) | Emery Allen | Ron Hicks | Jorge Luis Borges | Holly Warburton | Richard Siken | Joseph Lorusso

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

— V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018) Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”

— Atonement, Ian McEwan (b. 21 June 1948)

― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

cruel summer - taylor swift // a primer for the small weird loves - richard siken // twin size mattress - the front bottoms // little beast - richard siken // margaret atwood // the end of time part two - doctor who // a child's defintion of love // wuthering heights - emily brontë // the timeless children - doctor who

Mary Szybist, from  “In Tennessee I Found a Firefly”, Granted

Mary Oliver, Sleeping In the Forest

Painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska

Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"

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baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

The Gates in June – Fritz Wildhagen / June in the Austrian Tyrol, John MacWhirter / A Month of First Crushes, Schuyler Peck @schuylerpeck / Flaming June, Frederic Leighton / June, Frederick Seidel / Evening, Joseph Brodsky / Romance, Arthur Rimbaud / June, Florence and the Machine / Sonnet XL, Pablo Neruda / Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles / The Blacksmith, Arthur Rimbaud / Diaries, 1914-1923, Franz Kafka