Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination
— I peel an orange, and I give you half. In the time it took to separate it, I fell in love with you again.
Excerpt Sources:
Golden Girl by Frank Ocean • Oranges on a plate • The Orange by Wendy Cope • Tumblr post • Oranges by Jean Little • Clementines • I love you • Tumblr Post • The Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines by Alessia Di Cesare
The Fireplace, 1994
it is said women’s cycles sync with the moon; are we all in harmony with her elegant beauty, carrying the world’s rhythm inside ourselves?
~ Bianca Sparacino, "The Strength In Our Scars"
a girl of fear, a woman of anger— look how we've grown
Arrietty inspired rooms
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“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.” ― Madeline Miller, Circe
Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Extracting the Stone of Madness”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972