♡ fairytale-like Words ♡

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

or·phic

/ˈôrfik/

adjective mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”

— Syd Barrett (via quotemadness)

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022