half-goddess

Antiquarium of Pompeii 

Charles Corbet - Still life with carnations and poppies, c.1910

Ernst Meyer - In the Swiss Jura, 1904

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. January 1921 in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920-1923

Lamb of God mosaic in presbytery of Basilica of San Vitale (built A.D. 547) Ravenna, Italy.

Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994

colored pencil and acrylic paint ~ Melissa of anthemsweet

From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

— Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to John Allan (November 1829)