secretive dreams

@ Marianne Brandi

I decided to start with a nightmare.

Paolo Sorrentino, on The Young Pope

I realized that if I ever have children, I don’t want them to have American childhoods.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Brook James

Ariana Grande, Thinking Bout You, Dangerous Woman

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, December 5, 1909

Find what you’re afraid of most and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Melancholy (detail), Constance Marie Charpentier, 1801. Oil on canvas.

Stourhead