all your dreams turn bittersweet

'Oh! I hardly know what he is like,' said Margaret, lazily; too tired to tax her powers of description much. And then rousing herself, she said, 'He is a tall, broad-shouldered man, 'About thirty - with a face that is neither exactly plain, nor yet handsome, nothing remarkable - not quite a gentleman, but that was hardly to be expected.' — North and South, Chapter VII

needlepoint lace edging, italian c. 1600s.

Joanna Whittle (British, 1974) - Forest Shrine (Blue Lights) (2020)

all sigh in the cold sea wind

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Scanned from the book Tribus berbères du Haut-Atlas; 1977; André Bertrand; photos by René Bertrand

Kit Boyd (British, 1969) - Birth of the Phoenix (2025)

Henry Liverseege (1802-1832) "Little Red Riding Hood" (1830) Oil on canvas

Saj Issa - Crocodile Crown

Stanisław Dróżdż, Alea icta est (2003)

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1930s Mine-found Zip-Up Jacket

Opal Mayıslar, Saricakaya District, Eskişehir Province, Turkey

Question to the stars, 1898 Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach