1. // 2. Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart // 3. Simone Weil, An Anthology Of Selected Writings //

“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Ruminations on Godhood & Girlhood: How does a girl become real?

Kristin Chang// Mary Queen of Scots dir. Josie Rourke// Hippolytos translated by Anne Carson// Agnes of God, John Pielmeyer// Romeo and Juliet dir. Franco Zefferelli// Richard Siken// Gwendolyn Macewen// Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn Black Madonna by Magdalena Walulik//Weeping Madonna statue//The Archetypes” Marina and the Diamonds// Joan of Arc mural// Kristin Chang// The Philadelphia Story dir. George Cukor// Nikki Giovanni

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”

— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

—Chris Mc Geown

“Do you imagine at night someone going to bed the very moment you are going to bed? Turning out the light? And isn’t it so quiet you swear the heart is telepathic. Isn’t it—”

— Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Eros in His Striped Shirt

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

— Ernest Hemingway

Shirley Jackson ― We Have Always Lived in the Castle