“It’s Amazing How Much Distance One Truth Can Create Between Two People.”

“Elle s'éveillait comme d'un songe, elle naissait à la passion.”

— Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours: Poems; "Stay," originally published in 2005

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu 

𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟: vanilla macarons, soft rain, oversized blazers & cashmere cardigans, cinnamon scented candles, velvet hair ribbons, spending nights by the fireplace

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

ancient greek word of the night: νυκτόμαντις (nyktomantis), one who prophesies by night