“She Never Forgot That Day; It Was So Bright And Golden And Fair, So Free From Shadow And So Lavish

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”

— Barry H. Gillespie

Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

April 13, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

““I miss dreaming forwards,” Anna said. “What?” “I dream backwards now. You won’t believe how backwards you’ll dream someday.””

— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness (via quoted-books)

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“I do understand—and it is terrible.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1915, featured in “Letters to Felice,” (via violentwavesofemotion)