Aldous Huxley

“I am still learning.”

— Michelangelo (via thoughtkick)

I want to be sixteen again

“I may be feeding an impure hunger.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907 (via violentwavesofemotion)

We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Other Wound”

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

“Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive. You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches on a palette.”

— Victoria Erickson

“The world didn’t know / what to do with my love. / Because it isn’t used to being loved”

— Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper

Lorde //  Emily St. John Mandel // Geoffrey Hill