mutual possession

June 2012

88 posts

“I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these faltering steps out the door
every day, then back again.” —Catherine Anderson, from “Before Sleep” (via intramuro)

Jun 30, 2012767 notes

“There is no beauty without some strangeness.” —Edgar Allan Poe

Jun 29, 201230,191 notes

“I never change; I simply become more myself.” —Joyce Carol Oates

Jun 29, 201216,624 notes

“Instead of helping, you give me less room on my deathbed.” —Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor

Jun 29, 2012180 notes

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Jun 29, 2012155 notes

“Your eyes make me shy.” —Anaïs Nin

Jun 29, 201210,995 notes

“I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.” — Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Jun 29, 2012906 notes

“I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.” —Henri Barbusse, Hell

Jun 29, 20123,681 notes

“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.” —Hunter S. Thompson

Jun 29, 201211,503 notes

“My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing.” —Rilke

Jun 29, 20121,038 notes

“I hope you’re living a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jun 29, 20127,426 notes

“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think. And things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.” —A Single Man

Jun 29, 2012121 notes

“I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.” —Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow

Jun 29, 201215,311 notes

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” —Virginia Woolf

Jun 29, 2012225 notes

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” —Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

Jun 29, 2012148 notes

“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” —Allen Ginsberg

Jun 25, 2012387 notes

“Then I shut my eyes for they were hurting me.” —Franz Kafka

Jun 24, 20121,740 notes

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” —A. A. Milne

Jun 24, 20123,151 notes

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself; is it worth it? And it just isn’t.” —Miranda July

Jun 23, 20128,619 notes

“An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.” —Aldous Huxley

Jun 23, 201248 notes