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I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

- Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

[12/100] days of productivity

Spent hours copying quotes and other random things collected during the months―thanks to my "obsessive screenshotting mania"―into my commonplace journal.

So relaxing. Almost therapeutic. I recommend.

𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰

Luigi Rossi - Primavera (detail)

Simone de Beauvoir, from "The Woman Destroyed," originally published in 1967

'Good is dull. What novelist ever succeeded in making a good man interesting? . . . Evil on the contrary, is exciting and fascinating and alive. It is also very much more mysterious than good. Good can be seen through. Evil is opaque.'

Loved it!

[11/100] days of productivity

It's Monday, so...you know the gist.

Read, eat, write, repeat.

6 June 1926 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

And she watched the daffodils turn golden, in a burst of sun that was warm on her hands and lap. Even she caught the faint, tarry scent of the flowers.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Secret of the Golden Flower

“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[10/100] days of productivity

House chores and then just relax. A nice walk. Finally, a cozy mexican dinner with friends.

Lately.

Pages from the diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell (feat. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot), from Garsington May 27 (1926)

devour me (via)

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Favorite poems by Louise Glück

Pomegranate

Timor Mortis

The Garment

Earthly Love

The Queen of Carthage

Immortal Love

A Myth of Devotion

A Myth of Innocence

Persephone the Wanderer

Crater Lake

more to add in the future for sure!

I did some damage.

[9/100] days of productivity

Read...A LOT.

and that's all.

IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill

You're in the wind, I'm in the water. Nobody's son, nobody's daughter.

Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club

[8/100] days of productivity

worked on some articles for my Substack, made a lot of progress with Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates (this book is...devastating and kinda traumatic), did house chores, and went for a walk.

May 2025 wrap-up

The Closed Doors by Pauline Albanese - 4/5

The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras - 4/5

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas - 4/5

The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese - 5/5

Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese - 5/5

A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch - 5/5

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart - 4.25/5

10 Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly - 4/5

wonderful reading month!

check out my reviews here 💌

Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes. She was utterly incapable of resisting it. From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

wednesday

[7/100] days of productivity

worked on my May wrap-up article for my Substack, that will be out tomorrow, read A LOT (I'm currently juggling 4 books), and rearranged my bookshelf.

April 20th, 1935 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

Sylvia Plath, aged 19, journal entry #124, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated May 15, 1952)