#desert of the heart

[designforliving1933]

Diversion #6 (1988) interview with Jane Rule, author of "Desert of the Heart" (1964) which was made into movie "Desert Hearts" in 1985 (archive.org)

[glovelylovely]

LANE'S GAYBC'S (4/26)

D IS FOR DESERT OF THE HEART

"'I live in the desert of the heart,' Evelyn said quietly. 'I can't love the whole damned world.' 'Love me, Evelyn.' 'I do.' [...] The storm was a simple force that could be met and challenged, a welcome violation of the desert. Even the skidding gravel and the sudden disappearances of the road could not shake her confidence. Then, as they dropped over the crest of a hill, the rain stopped, and before them was a valley of brilliant, burning sunlight, arched with rainbows, edged with lightning. Its beauty broke into Evelyn's vision like an explosion. 'This is the desert of the heart,' Ann said quietly."

[isavedyouthewaltz]

Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau in Desert Hearts (1985) dir. Donna Deitch based on Desert of the Heart (1964) by Jane Rule

[sassmill]

Sounding the alarm that Desert Hearts appears to currently be up in full HD for free on YouTube???

[dontbestingybaby]

"Clichés were only a sin in literature. In life, if they happened to be true, there was no intellectual campaign that would defeat them."

— from Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

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George was the real victim of their marriage, so much the victim that he hadn’t the courage left to want a divorce. ‘Your honor, I charge this man with what I have done to him. I charge this man with being a victim to my circumstance. I charge this man with ulcers, insomnia, psychosis, insecurity, isolation, and despair. I charge him with my guilt which I cannot bear anymore.’ Was there a legal term for this? Was there no social convention that could relieve the torturer’s suffering? None. If this mock hearing did, in fact, set her free, she would still carry the mark of a strong, intelligent woman like the brand of Cain on her forehead. 

Jane Rule, Desert of the Heart

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Double-heated sillies by @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11

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[mayloony]

The rise and fall of mother spore

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[ddvaumemes]

Why dis 🍄 look so mad…

[dustshine]

doody draw more eyelashes on your characters and my life is yours

anyways the art for the new update is just, chef kiss. I swear ill be making more fanart for the new update just that art block has me in a choke hold sobbing

[theenbyofsongbirdsandsnakes]

I had to okay.

[glovelylovely]

hello is what a mirror says

from december 19th, 2023

[aethirial]

DDVAU ART TIME!!

just a vigilante and a hero dancing in to moonlight ^○^

[sapphicweisz]

[dontbestingybaby]

"It was easy enough to forsake the past, but could you forsake the future? Perhaps."

— from Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule