… or they could look down, and embrace what they always had and loved. /end ID]

Lola Rennt (1998)

Young Glenn’s sitting poses are the best.

Eduard Bagritsky, from “Black Bread,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

—I don’t think we need to tell sad stories. Life’s too short. —That’s exactly why we have to tell them.

Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 19 November 1919, Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, From The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two 1912-1922

— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

— ten-word-story, #47

— Love Opened a Mortal Wound, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - (1651-1695), tr. Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique (via decreation)

L'amour à la mer (Guy Gilles, 1964)

William Shakespeare ― The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Franz Kafka

— Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal (via neuseks)