“She Was Very Private. I Don’t Think Anyone Will Ever Be Able To Totally Capture Her—she Seemed

i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic

if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V (tr. by Elaine Feinstein)

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)

“And though my love did not leave, it went down into deeper darker places.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir (Canongate, 2019)

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

“I sleep, I sleep / too long,”

— Olga Broumas, Beginning with O; “Sleeping Beauty”