When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and persistent deep inside me, I was tempted to take the chopping knife in the kitchen and cut the black thing out I would lie on my bed staring at the ceiling thinking about that knife and using all my limited powers of self-control to stop myself from going downstairs to get it.

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Marcel Proust

Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
Andrei Tarkovsky

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
Andrei Tarkovsky