Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

“I had tea. I then spent a long time in a bookshop. A quiet evening.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice,”

Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God; “The Glass Essay”

Text ID: The bare blue trees and bleached wooden sky of April / carve into me with knives of light.

A cozy place like this 🧺

“I dwell in the shade of my heart and weave a new sky with the silk of poetry.”

— Adonis, from Elegy for the Present Day: IV; Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (tr. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Ivan Eubanks)

“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and its over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you’ve lost that person all over again.”

— Rachel Hawkins

I found a new type of animal