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I did it again (my other edits here)

1. Godward’s A Fair Reflection (1915) and Waterhouse’s The Soul of the Rose (1908)

2. Frank Cadogan Cowper’s Damsel of the Lake (1924) kissing the lady in Auguste Toulmouche’s The Kiss (c.1870)

3. Waterhouse’s A Song of Springtime (1913) and Auguste Toulmouche’s Woman and Roses (1879)

4. Evelyn De Morgan’s Ariadne in Naxos (1877) with Waterhouse’s Sweet Summer (1912)

5. A woman from Charles Perugini’s Dolce Far Niente (1882) about to wake up Victor Gilbert’s Sleeping Beauty (date unknown)

please reblog if you save! (except terfs, “gender critical” radfems and general transphobes, y’all can block me please)

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Le Chevallier aux fleurs, 1894

 Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938)

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Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892)

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Friedrich Heyser (German, 1857-1921) - Ophelia

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OPHELIA (details)

But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

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Abbotsford House  @gisforgeorgina

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Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “A Cycle of Quatrains,”

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do you have any quotes about one-sided love?

― Federico García Lorca

― Sarah Waters

― Donna Tartt

― Marina Tsvetaeva

― Ranata Suzuki

― Louise Glück

― Sanober Khan

― Margaret Atwood

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Silence had entered me. It was like the night, and my memories—they were like stars

Louise Glück, from Faithful and Virtuous Night; “Midnight”

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I got tired of hearing it was my fault, that’s all. This constant suffering, like I was Eve holding out the apple to spite myself. Aren’t I my own woman? Or is that not enough?

Claire C. Holland, from I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; “Carla”

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Claire C. Holland, from I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; “Dana”

[Text ID: “I never wanted this. Never / tried to be good, or pure. / They asked for sacrifice, / an offering / of the body, never mind / my mind.”]

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Claire C. Holland, from I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; “Ginger”

[Text ID: “I got cursed, in every way a / woman can. / You kill yourself, over and over, / to be different.”]

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“I don’t want to get attached to anyone anymore, it only destroys me in the end.”

— Unknown

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boobs honestly

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“Walking away had been easy. Not looking back was harder.”

— V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

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I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

Mark Lawrence, from “Prince of Thorns.”