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Teen girl chatting on the phone, 1958

How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

The Nightmare (circa 1790-1791), by Henry Fuseli, whereas the “mare” in the painting represents the word nightmare

[Text ID: “I wanted to be chosen, maybe loved. I wanted out of my life, out of my skin,”]

shot by @silkenweinberg

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Don Draper , Janet Fitch, Joyce Carol Oates, Evelyn Waugh, John Corey Whaley

-Charlotte Brontë

Anna Akhmatova, Emily Dickinson, Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Safran Foer , Clarice Lispector, Jessica Katoff ,Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, Joanna Hoffman

the holy trinity

[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]