Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
Tag: quotation
She liked time at the edges of things – the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood – where all must pass but none quite belonged.
Nicola Griffith, Hild (via quoted-books)
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.
Virginia Woolf (via tamarrud)
I shrugged the memory of failure away. Everyone doesn’t have to live in a heap. Painters, writers, musicians are lonely people. So are statesmen and admirals and generals. But then, I added to be fair, so are criminals and lunatics. Let’s just say, not to be too flattering, that true individuals are lonely.
I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like – like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.
One way to gauge the power of the Star Wars universe is that although nobody really knows what The Force Awakens is really about, they don’t really care that they don’t know. ‘Normally, when a movie comes out the most important thing is who’s in it and what’s it about,’ Carter, the production designer, says. ‘What’s interesting about Star Wars, this one, is that you can see that people don’t even really know who’s in it. You don’t know what it’s about, you don’t know the narrative—but you know what it feels like to be in the movie.’ There are stars in Star Wars, but the universe is bigger than them. The universe is the superstar. ‘There’s such a thing, in a weird way, as the spirit of place. You can feel it. There’s an invitation to come and be a part of this world.’
Lev Grossman, “A New Hope: How J.J. Abrams brought back Star Wars using puppets, greebles, and yak hair.” Time magazine.
Anxiety itself reassures us with the consoling thought that we still have something left to lose.
(via alterities)
The trouble with friends was that you couldn’t get rid of them. There was no way to take back a friendship in the wake of betrayal or disappointment. The friendship, and everything that went with it, stayed. It just became unreliable, like an abandoned house; you still knew where all the rooms were, and which stairs creaked underfoot, but you had to check every floorboard for rot before trusting your weight to it.
Chris Moriarty, Spin State
Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.
Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via wnq-anonymous)
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