RAPTURE

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing (1767)

‘I think I’ll be an old maid until I die. I’ll probably sit around with cats for the rest of my life. Whatever happens, I certainly won’t start to drink. But I do have what you call entrenched habits, and I’m not going to change them.’ Edith Bouvier Beale ..

[” – Men’s letters are proverbially uninteresting and uncommunicative – ”]

Charlotte Brontë, in a letter to Ellen Nussey, dated 7 November 1854

newstead abbey, ancestral home of lord byron

were looking at metaphysical items on ebay

Hand Illustrations by Rim Bitik

Elif Batuman on feeling like everyone around you seeming so much more formed and opinionate.

oh nooooo i found a trunk full of old journals in the attic, hope i don’t accidentally uncover some forbidden knowledge not meant for mortal understanding haha ;)