“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”

— J. W. Goethe

“I am calm. I am calm. It is the calm before something awful:”

— Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women,” Winter Trees

“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber

Albert Camus, from Caligula & Other Plays; "State of Siege: A Play in Three Parts,"

Five times a day, I make tea. I do this because I like the warmth in my hands, like the feeling of self-directed kindness. I'm not used to it— warmth and kindness, both-so I create my own when I can.

Leila Chatti, from "Tea"

Last night I couldn't sleep and couldn't sleep just because I wanted so badly to spill over to someone. I feel that I'm cut off from all humankind. I feel like putting my head on your shoulder and weeping from sheer homesickness.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath wr. c. June 1951 featured in Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

Godfather Drosselmeier told me there are marvelous swans gliding about and wearing gold ribbons and singing the loveliest songs, and a girl is there to feed them sweet marzipan.

E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816)

THE LADY IN QUESTION (1940)

“She was a great dreamer of love.”

— Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)

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