Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990
[text: Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away.
Even as I hold you I am letting go.]
Dress, 1805-10 France, Les Arts Décoratifs
“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“I fall asleep whispering “I am safer alone I am safer alone I am safer alone I am safer alone" […] Forgive me, memory is a rope around the neck.”
— Clementine von Radics, from James (via unpetalled)
“It’s not myself I hand over to you—that would be too simple—what I hand over to you is yourself, yourself loved in every part.”
— John Berger, From A to X: A Story in Letters