"I've spent years trying to forget, but the memories always find me. Your face, your voice, the way you looked at me when I thought I understood you. They always found me, no matter how much time has passed"
-Fallen Echoes
-Fallen Echoes
❤1
"Just now, I felt like I wanted to be alone
for a long time, in a folding chair on the lawn
with all my private agonies, but then I saw you
and the way you’re hunching over your work
like a puzzle, and I think even if I fail at everything,
I still want to point out the heron like I was taught,
still want to slow the car down to see the thing
that makes it all better, the invisible gift, what
we see when we stare long enough into nothing."
-Ada Limón
for a long time, in a folding chair on the lawn
with all my private agonies, but then I saw you
and the way you’re hunching over your work
like a puzzle, and I think even if I fail at everything,
I still want to point out the heron like I was taught,
still want to slow the car down to see the thing
that makes it all better, the invisible gift, what
we see when we stare long enough into nothing."
-Ada Limón
"Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,
right here, feeling lucky."
-Ada Limón, Bright dead things
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,
right here, feeling lucky."
-Ada Limón, Bright dead things
"It is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it."
-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still."
-Charlotte Brontë
-Charlotte Brontë
"While the world watched with fascination the gay, charming, intelligent, mysterious Anaïs, the other women in her—the shy, the strong, the practical, the unsure, the observing, the detached, the childish—clamored for recognition in the pages of the diary. It is the gathering place of her fragmented self, her retreat from the demands of living."
-Gunther Stuhlman
-Gunther Stuhlman
"But I am not in danger because my home, my garden, my beautiful life do not lull me. I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing."
-Anaïs Nin
-Anaïs Nin
❤1
"If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict. In the love between man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other. They form an alliance. It is, in a way, self-love. I love June because she is the woman I would like to be."
-Anaïs Nin
-Anaïs Nin
❤1
"أحببت ضحكته، فقد كانت كلحظات الشمس الخاطفة التي تتسرب من بين الغيوم الراكضة في خريف ضيعتنا."
-حنين الصايغ
-حنين الصايغ
❤3
"To the sympathetic a masterpiece becomes a living reality which we feel drawn in bonds of comradeship. The masters are immortal, for their loves and fears live in us over and over again."
-Okakura Tenshin
-Okakura Tenshin
"It didn't much matter which system of thought a man chose to identify himself with, so long as he kept his heart calm, in which case everything would naturally work itself out for the best."
-Amenomori Hōshū
-Amenomori Hōshū