#is scrumptious – @anenlighteningellipsis on Tumblr

Beauty in the apertures of pain

I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.

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“I could not look at her and not want to touch her. I could not see the shine upon her pink lips, without wanting to step to her and press my mouth to it.”

- - ‘Tipping the Velvet’, by Sarah Waters, with Rachael Stirling (Nan) & Jodhi May (Florence) in the BBC adaptation [2002]

#lovelovelove #currently reading #tipping the velvet #sarah waters #also #do recommend #the miniseries #rachael stirling #is scrumptious #esp along with KEELEY HAWES !!!!#*aherm*#yes this is holy #lesbians #wlw #lgbtq