mutual possession

"I don’t know whether you’ve got nothing or something inside you, but I think you’re terrific."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:38:46 -0400

“I don’t know whether you’ve got nothing or something inside you, but I think you’re terrific.”

- Haruki Murakami (via belle-de-nuit)

"No one heals himself by wounding another."

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:32:37 -0400

“No one heals himself by wounding another.”

- St. Ambrose of Milan (via ghostghostt)

"There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favourite."

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:05:49 -0400

“There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favourite.”

- Iain S. Thomas (via horreure)

"I’m always thinking, always feeling, but my thoughts lack all reason, my emotions all feeling."

Sun, 12 May 2013 02:57:32 -0400

“I’m always thinking, always feeling, but my thoughts lack all reason, my emotions all feeling.”

- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. (via froideurs)

"How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:00:32 -0400

“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via larmoyante)

"What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:52:11 -0400

“What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.”

- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 July 1912 (via lonehands)

"I probably still haven’t adapted to the world."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:00:27 -0400

“I probably still haven’t adapted to the world.”

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via klonazepam)

"I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:44:51 -0400

“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (via funeraire)

"The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:26:44 -0400

“The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.”

- Charles Bukowski (via vvooovv)

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:15:19 -0400

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

- Aldous Huxley (via the-ramblings-of-the-writers)

"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:15:14 -0400

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”

- Saul Bellow, Herzog (via sorakeem)

"Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:45:48 -0400

“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 ch. 19, p. 303 (via pax-caelestis)

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:43:00 -0400

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via moonbrains)

"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:17:28 -0400

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”

- Vladimir Nabokov (via drunkblogging)

"What makes a coat truly beautiful is that you’re so cold you can’t live without it. It’s like a..."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:48:33 -0400

“What makes a coat truly beautiful is that you’re so cold you can’t live without it. It’s like a friend or member of the family. And I’m terribly envious of that.”

- Yohji Yamamoto (via crystallizations)

"You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:25:42 -0400

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.

Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”

- Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via belle-de-nuit)

"There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favorite."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:44:57 -0400

““There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favorite.””

- Iain Thomas, The Scars You Love (via alienism)

"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:23:11 -0500

“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”

- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via prenzlauer)

"All great and precious things are lonely."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:37:06 -0500

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via holyclitoris)

"We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:31:49 -0500

“We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via myrtsi)