January 2012
“When fear crawls out in the evenings from all four corners, when the winter...”
– Elsa Binder, 30 January 1942, from Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (edited by Alexandra Zapruder)
Elsa Binder wrote eloquently and passionately about the destruction of the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Poland. Her diary was found in a ditch on the way to an execution...
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via bookmania)
“When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via sabbathi)
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson (via sabino)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via doucement)
“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via misswallflower)
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html. (via feministteapot)
“Half the fear of failure is of the judgment of false friends we feel compelled...”
– Alain de Botton (via mostexerent)
Elegy for my husband, Toi Derricotte →
kathleenjoy:
What was there is no longer there: Not the blood running its wires of flame through the whole length Not the memories, the texts written in the language of the flat hills No, not the memories, the porch swing and the father crying The genteel and elegant aunt bleeding out on the highway (Too black for the white ambulance to pick up) Who had sent back lacquered plates from China Who...
“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost...”
– Virginia Woolf, from The Waves (via growing-orbits)
