like an old oil painting.
𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟸 𝙰 𝙻𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝙻𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗 & 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚢 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛: 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟸–𝟷𝟿𝟻𝟹
“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
— Annelyse Gelman from “The Pillowcase” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone
Let's open a coffeeshop that is also a bookshop, that is also an art studio and a flower shop.
Dream.❤️
There, where I come from,
is the only place I know where you can grab the night like a railing
to keep from falling through the dark.
— Humberto Ak’abal, “There,” transl. Michael Bazzett, The American Poetry Review (vo. 52, no, 4, July / August 2023)
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“How is it that I am writing to you? I do not know; but I am conscious of an irresistible desire to remind you of my existence.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via catherineaddington)
Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides