Aniseed.

Aniseed. Illustration from ‘Phytanthoza Iconographia‘ by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann. Published 1737.
Missouri Botanical Garden.

“I demand
that your heart survive
on its own,
belonging only to itself,
whole, entirely whole,
and workable
in its dark cavern under your ribs.”

—	Anne Sexton - from The Break Away

Fritz von Uhde

“Heideprinzeßchen”

“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat.”

—	Jeanette Winterson - from Written on the Body

“I am free,’ he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish.”

—	Jean-Paul Sartre - from The Reprieve