‘Diana and Endymion’ (detail) by Francesco Solimena, c. 1705-1710.
Venice, Full Moon over Santa Maria Salute by Karl Heilmayer
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
— Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. Today we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.
-Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
— Jihyun Yun, from "The Leaving Season," Some Are Always Hungry
Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life
Text ID: I was no one, I had neither name nor face. Moving through August, I was: nothing.
“I want you desperately. I want your strength and your softness, your hands, all of you.”
Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953’
“On earth, the terrible things and the beautiful things continue to happen beside each other. On the moon in the darkness, nothing. On earth in the darkness, sometimes rain swells like applause.”
— Jeffrey Morgan, from “All Night No Sleep Now This” published in BOAAT (via pigmenting)
“You moved in me, like prayer.”
— Rickey Laurentiis, from “King of Shade, King of Scorpions,” Whipped (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013)
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
- Dracula, Bram Stoker.
