#letters to vera

[shisasan]

5 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[marydarkblacknoir]

Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

[mournfulroses]

Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter featured in Letters to Vera published in 2014

[madgirlscosm]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

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Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[griefyards]

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // Brokeback Mountain (2005) // Moon Song, Phoebe Bridgers // The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes // A Ghost Story (2017) // The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // Candy (2006) // Letters to Vera, Vladimir Nabokov.

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Laura Gilpin The Two-Headed Calf // Linda Pastan Why Are Your Poems so Dark? // Margaret Atwood Shapechangers In Winter // @/doeantlers (twitter) // Vladimir Nabokov Letters to Vera // Ada Limón Dead Stars // @xshayarsha

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[soircieres]

from Vladimir Nabokov’s Letters to Véra.

[orchard-bliss]

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters To Vera

[shisasan]

10 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[composedofflaws]

[petaltexturedskies]

Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought—and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.

Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Slonim written c. July 1923, featured in Letters to Véra

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Vladimir Nabokov Letters to Vera / pinterest / @heavensghost WHAT IS LOVE IF NOT THE SHARING OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL? / Young Royals (2021-) cr. Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung, Camilla Holter / Kiersten White The Chaos of Stars / Alida Moon / Blue (2002) dir. 安藤尋 Hiroshi Ando / Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood