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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
“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
“The people who applaud the loudest, Lucrezia notes, are the ones who talked through the performance.”
― The Marriage Portrait
― 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
“The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“Ow if you please don't! Ow, what has everybody gone and been and done with everybody, making everybody else so wretched!
Ow-w-w-w!”
― The Cricket on the Hearth
Ow-w-w-w!”
― The Cricket on the Hearth
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