“Ravished! How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscenities and dead ideas become obsessions.”
— D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”
— D. H. Lawrence
(Source: thebarefootnomad)
“He needed me now more than ever, but something had come between us. I’d stopped even paying attention to him. Instead I sat in the car and read a map and spelled out entire sentences with my tongue on the roof of mouth where nobody could read them.”
— Badlands (1973), director Terrence Malick
“I’ve always wanted to write a poem about the silence
that hums between us when we kiss.
But my heart is already beating too loud
and the rain is falling
and smudging all the words.”
— Meagan Grisham
(Source: hellanne, via farewell-kingdom)
for the time that i am un(der)employed
read one book, get one night of dancing
“He took pity on her; yet he was quite ready to make a casual admission that caused extreme pain to the woman he loved. There, in the rain, outside the Metropol, they wandered up and down like lunatics, bumping into people—something large and impressive was under construction there, the building was covered in scaffolding, and now and again when it started to rain harder they would huddle under the projecting boards for shelter—and talking, talking, talking as they tried to work out how to go on living, whether they should stay together or part, perhaps forever… It ended with their going into the Metropol restaurant and eating a good lunch; he had received his pay from the museum that day, and they spent half of it on the meal.”
— Another Life by Yuri Trifonov
“Is this, I wonder, what’s called happiness? A bright morning, a path through the woods in the fall?”
— Another Life by Yuri Trifonov.
