"... What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she would fly."
— The Virgin Suicides
I want to be anonymous and private. I want to talk without talking—if such a thing is possible.
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles
"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange,
Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein)
vintage dior
Hug me like the night holds the moon.
― Alexandra Vasiliu
“You know that place between sleep and awake; that place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I will always love you. That’s where I will always be waiting.”
- J.M. Barrie “Peter Pan”
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Glück
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
― Jane Austen, from “Sense and Sensibility.”
"but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and it is taking all your strength."
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
to be loved is to be seen
Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953
“Tears that are pearls, in ocean moonlight,”
— Li Shang-Yin, tr. by John A. Turner, from “A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems,”
— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “Intuitions,” wr. c. 1932