opia
n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
rückkehrunruhe
n. the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all.
midsummer
n. a feast celebrated on the day of your 26th birthday, which marks the point at which your youth finally expires.
yu yi
n. the desire to feel intensely again.
catoptric tristesse
n. the sadness that you’ll never really know what other people think of you, whether good, bad or if at all.
fitzcarraldo
n. an image that somehow becomes lodged deep in your brain—maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a casual conversation.
Women who create things other than children are still considered dangerous by many.
— Literary Witches, Pam Grossman (via pout-dracula)
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