When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via booksqouted)
Tag: quotation
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via larmoyante)
I am this groping intensity that is a soul.
Jorge Luis Borges, My Whole Life, Selected Poems 1923-1967 (via starseas)
The wreckage of stars — I built a world from this wreckage.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Dionysian Dithyrambs (via nymfit)
When you finally realize that nothing is permanent in this life, you will become more tolerant, more forgiving and less judgmental.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
Naguib Mahfouz (via exoticwild)
We are the breakers of our own heart.
Eudora Welty (via exoticwild)
Desire is transformative, and transgressive: whether it’s an unpeeled onion or a noble lover, to want something, especially for women, can never be entirely benign.
‘Fairy tale heroines navigate worlds that darkly mirror our own, in which appetite is a slippery set of contradictions. Food, sex, and power are wrapped up in conflicting rules, like the beautiful and the ugly twins, the mother and the witch, the prince and the dragon, two edges of the same knife, cutting both ways.’
(via wine-loving-vagabond)
Introducing these people to our friends and family is, in a way, more heedlessly exhibitionistic than posting nude photos or sex tapes of ourselves online; it’s like letting everyone watch our uncensored dreams.
Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
secretive dreams 