finita-la-commedia:
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“I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to Vera (January 19, 1925), featured in “Letters To Vera”...

finita-la-commedia:


“I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.”

–  Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to Vera (January 19, 1925), featured in “Letters To Vera” by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, 1899-1977)

champgn:

“Over the winter I turned apathetic and silent. I could not say the most important thing, so it no longer occured to me to say anything.”

Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,

violentwavesofemotion:

“I wanted to tear myself free from that past. It had sucked me back in a vortex I could no longer support.”

Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993