why is being alive so expensive. i’m not even having a good time
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”— Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
(via coocoolah)
“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because romantic doesn’t mean sugary. It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”— Catherine Breillat, “Interview by Martin Tsai,“ The New York Sun
(via thequotejournals)
“My energy has not direction, tames no chaos, creates, consumes, creates unceasing its own wildfires that none shall measure.”— Denise Levertov, from Life in the Forest: Poems; “Artist to Intellectual,”
““I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.””—
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(viaemotional-algebra)
“Lovely-eyed. Death-touched. Witch.”— Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Olga Broumas & T. Begley, from “The Dream,”
“she’s the girl with a fairytale face but her mouth screams like a wolf’s”— words of the consultant, minjeong son (via paroi)
“She approaches me and lights the fire of her soft belly. A fire blue and white. A snake’s hiss. The whispering sound of salt…”— Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (via thebluesthour)
