Louis Welden Hawkins - Perfect Harmony (detail)

"Suffering feels religious if you do it right"

Chelsea Hodson; Tonight I'm Someone Else

Costume designed by Adrian for Marie Antoinette - 1938 (detail, my scan)

“Firesouled, vermilion-hearted,”

— Amy Lowell, from A Dome of Many-coloured Glass; Before the Altar.

little bouquet of wildflowers my sister and I picked for my mom’s anniversary <3

Azar du Marest, from Charles Baudelaire’s Harmonie du Soir, 1899.

Silence, 1919 - Louis Buisseret

— Franz Kafka, from “The Castle.”

“We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”

— Helen Macdonald, from H is for Hawk (Grove Press, 2014)

Marina Carreira, from "What the Water Gave Me"