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Ritual Dagger, 17th century or earlier, Eastern Tibet, Kham region. Gilt copper alloy and rock crystal.

“Fiction teaches us that the sorrows of living are meaningful. Fiction restores the meaning. The experience which is being lived day by day may seem futile, destructive because the vision of totality is lacking. In the novel it acquires a pattern. It is fiction. It reaches beyond pain to the pattern of meaningfulness which consoles us for all the agonies, and uncovers elevations.”

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume Five 1947-1955

Roses Farm, a cottage dating back to around 1285 (via).

[” – Men’s letters are proverbially uninteresting and uncommunicative – ”]

Charlotte Brontë, in a letter to Ellen Nussey, dated 7 November 1854

america’s next top cottage

Confessional booth, 1800s.

thinking it’s been too long since i climbed a fence

visualize your ideal self, then start acting like her

Summer Front Porch by Janet Kruskamp

My kink is unloved characters suddenly being loved unconditionally