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"never thought i’d be reading someone theorizing about the gendered van holten pickle caricatures being in torrid, homoerotic extramarital affairs but it is shockingly awesome." — Jun 27, 2026 11:08AM
"never thought i’d be reading someone theorizing about the gendered van holten pickle caricatures being in torrid, homoerotic extramarital affairs but it is shockingly awesome." — Jun 27, 2026 11:08AM
“The people who applaud the loudest, Lucrezia notes, are the ones who talked through the performance.”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be
asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”
― The Marriage Portrait
asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”
― The Marriage Portrait
“Does the light still slant into my chamber in the evening, just before it disappears below the city's roofs? Do you miss me? Even a little? Does anyone ever go and stand before my portrait?”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“A basket of onions, encased in their dry and aetiolated jackets, lies abandoned on a stool.”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
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