the sibyl

"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography"

But I am so deeply lost in my own soul, how can I expect anyone else to understand me?

- Courtney Peppernell

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

Lucrèce by Artemisia Gentileschi (detail)

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

It is okay to mourn the child that you were, or the child that you could have been. It is okay to be sad or angry that no one protected you like you should have been protected. It is okay to grieve.