All I need,

peaceful…….

if the universe wasn’t capable of sentience and feeling neither could you be

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver

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

— the secret history, donna tartt.

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water” — Brian Jacques, Taggerung.

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

Henry Miller in a letter to Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Henry Miller in a letter to Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Margaret Atwood, from “The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart”, Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

by Marina Ogneva

Franz Kafka, from The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1917-1919)