“…One May Smile, And Smile, And Be A Villain.”

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

— Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form, tr. by Khaled Mattawa

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

moon·struck

/ˈmo͞onˌstrək/

adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love. 

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley