ℰ𝑙𝑒𝒶𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑎ִֶ

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “ 𝒯he first time I ever picked up a piece of chalk and solved what I thought to be impossible was the first time I realized who I 𝐰𝐚𝐬. ”

𝔀here all the 𝓹oets went to 𝓭ie.

“That's what I've been doing, yes — if we overlook my small side job as a problem solver. Very well. . . you know those articulated mannequins artists use as models? I took on the challenge of making one. And at the moment I'm working on carving the perfect sphere,” Fyodor

What an unfortunate phrase, asking me to kiss you right after telling me you’re Theodore in pastel clothing. I have no interest in kissing your brother, princess. But I would follow you anywhere.

Your selfishness has never frightened me and it won’t begin to now. I know, but you have the certainty that there will be no happy life after you. Which is precisely why I would accept that fate.

It would be a pleasant ending for our lives.

An exhausted young couple during an all-night jazz session at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Photo by Erich Auerbach, 1957

“I’ve developed something of a taste for wood carving. To achieve a rounded form you need time and patience and at this particular moment in life I have both.” Fyodor was nothing if not devoted to her and so after drawing the long brunette waves away from her cheek he pressed a