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Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

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Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems; “I Think I Was Enchanted,”

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"Blooming June" or "Flowers of Hypnos", from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

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Details of Portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

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‘The Northern Constellations’ from Middleton’s Celestial Atlas (1842)

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apricity:

dearest love

earnestly have i waited for peace to arrive—

and arrive it did like the warmth of the sun on a cold winters day

you have seen my soul

yet you choose to love it profoundly anyway—

you have seen beyond the dark blue that casts a shadow on my bleeding heart—

and though my mind is distorted

it is an honor to love and to be loved by you

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Portrait of Sofia Andreyevna Shuvalova (detail), c. 1849. Karl Pavlovich Bryullov

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how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf

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Forecourt of a gothic cathedral by moonlight — Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)

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Girl with a candle (Detail) by Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916)

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"libère mes yeux"

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god my absolute favorite feeling is devouring a book, when you get so into the pages and the words that you have to stop your eyes from skipping lines and force yourself to read every word, when you’re so impatient for what happens next that you can’t sit still while reading, when you have to re read whole pages because you were too busy predicting and anticipating that you missed the actual events, when you read a part that’s too good for words and you have to close the book and scream into your pillow, that’s what reading a truly great book is about and the feeling is even better when you haven’t found a book like that in a long time and then you stumble across one and something inside of you awakens