To love life even when you have no stomach for it as they say!

// I love you to death // I love you to life

Albert Camus // Work Song by Hozier // The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller // unknown // Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare // Kurt Vonnegut

Luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

-Daphne du Maurier

Utterly obsessed with these Shakespeare playbook covers from the late 1960s by Paul Hogarth

The Princess Diaries (2001) dir. Garry Marshall

the water reflection of the bridge

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body

“It is June. I am used to being a certain kind of alone.“

Clarice Lispector, from “The Hour of the Star”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

9 Songs (2004)

It’s all for you; everything I do. 

Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana ( @liriostigre ) Strawberry Blond, Mitski (art by @fridayiminlovemp3 ) | A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara ( @hjarta ) | Untitled, @8bitfiction | The House of Love, Adonis ( @angesirene​ )

moss angel / lloyd schwartz / unknown / purity ring / dalton day / margaret atwood

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (c. October 1928)

Phoebe Bridgers, Moon Song

Franz Kafka (misattributed)

Leo Brynielsson, The Moon Has Fallen

Mitski, Happy

Richard Siken, Anyway

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lady Moon

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hymn to the Moon

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

Rumi, Some Kiss We Want

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Margaret Atwood, Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later

1.dorothy kunhart, pat the bunny // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)