Clarice Lispector, From Água Viva; Translated By Stefan Tobler

me in the spring sun

’Crenaia, The Nymph of the Dargle’ by Frederic Leighton, 1880

Marta Orlowska

[She] looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl.

Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.

December 16, 1930 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Novels and Writings of D. H. Lawrence

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— Carl Jung

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust