Running From Reality

[text ID: My library is an archive of longings.]

Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility"

Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

Jane Austen, from “Pride and Prejudice”

— Niina Pollari, from “At a Reading Listening to a Poem About Motherhood,” Path of Totality (via lifeinpoetry)

— Janice Lobo Sapiago, from “Being Reading,” like a solid to a shadow (via lifeinpoetry)

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”

— — Ocean Vuong, from “Nothing,” Time Is a Mother

— — Cynthia Cruz, from “Saturday,” Hotel Oblivion

The Victoria Daily Times, British Columbia, July 14, 1936

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— Emilie Buchwald, an excerpt from My Mother’s Music

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