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Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "As unforgettable as you’re forgetful," featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

Ana Božičević, from Rise in the Fall; “Anxiety of Influence”

Cecilia Woloch, from Carpathia; “Fireflies”

“My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners – my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?”

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

Maria Anna of Bavaria (1842) by Joseph Karl Stieler | Queen Henrietta Maria (1638) by Anthony Van Dyck | Chen Jiang Tao’s 3D Rendering of The Unequal Marriage by Vasily Pukirev | The Play Thing (1897) by Vittorio Matteo Corcos

Young Beauty in a Green Dress, (detail), (19th century), by Gustave Jean Jacquet (French, 1846 –1909), oil on canvas, Private Collection

PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

Marie Howe, from “Memorial”, What the Living Do

Young Woman Fastening a Letter to the Neck of a Pigeon, (detail), (c. 1760) attributed to Johann Christian von Mannlich (German, 1741 – 1822)

For a brief moment, Norrington breaks into a wide, boyish smile. His military bearing reasserts itself, but only just. ➢ PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) // accepting the proposal

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Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

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Sidney Sheldon, “The Sands of Time”