“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Luigi Bazzani (1836 - 1927)
The Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome, 1900
She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
you weren’t a “well behaved” child you had anxiety and were terrified of conflict
“A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs”
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
a study of the moon
~ Joseph Campbell
“burn it all.”
The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,
To feel that we exist,
Even in pain.
-Lord Byron
oh you’re a writer? how’s doing everything you can to avoid writing going?