“It Is Amazing What One Ray Of Sunshine Can Do For A Man!”

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

Sylvia Plath

“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”

— Euripides, Medea

Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography

“…One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

— Hamlet (Hamlet, Act I scene v)

“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 have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

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

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War