“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detatched, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
— Daphne DuMaurier
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““…candied plums, figs, oranges, and apricots with fine gold leaf, and more gold was being smoothed onto sweet biscuits of fried dough cut into witty shapes and drenched in spiced syrup and rosewater.””
— Philip Kazan, “Appetite.”
“The name they gave you belongs to someone else, their invention of you; if you turn out not to be that person, you have to name yourself.”
— Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
Vogue Ukraine presents Ukrainian folk clothing from various regions of the country:
1. Kievan peasant blouse from the 18th and early 19th century.
2. Male folk costume from Borschiv in Ternopil Oblast
3. Female folk costume from
Nizhyn in Chernihiv Oblast
4. Male folk costume from Sharhorod in Vinnytsia Oblast
5. Female folk costume from Kosiv in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
6. Male folk costume from Cherkasy in Cherkasy Oblast
7. Female folk costume from Chornobai in Cherkasy Oblast
8. Male folk costume from Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast
9. Female folk costume from Ovruch in Zhytomyr Oblast
10. Male folk costume from Kosiv in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
secretive dreams 