Bhanu Kapil, From The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers

"She's never where she is. She's only inside her head,"

Detail: Mars & Venus, Allegory of Peace, 1770, by Louis Jean François Lagrenée.

sebastiano ricci/ mary shelley / lisa kleypas / alexandre cabanel / roberto ferri / jeanette winterson / anne sexton / willem de zwart / eliran kantor / jack kerouac

‘where is the pen i was using like 3 seconds ago’ an autobiography i’ll never write because i keep losing the pen i was using like 3 seconds ago.

Once again I'm lost in old days

once again why did we let masquerade balls and handwritten letters and heart lockets and daggers strapped to thighs go out of fashion

“But the best walking is without reason, formless, scattering the self into thinking, more winter.”

— Jennifer Chang, from “We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once”, Some Say the Lark

In life, there are no winners or losers. It's about the believers and non believers.

You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says before pulling out a sword.

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. you won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. but one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

—

haruki murakami, kafka on the shore

it makes you stronger than ever

(via astound)

“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”

— Khalil Gibran (via wordsnquotes)