Ada Limón, from The Carrying; “Sometimes I think my body leaves a shape in the air”
- Moonlight -
“In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
I cannot remember when last I felt alive. I am tired. So terribly tired.
Spirited Away (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
“Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via books-n-quotes)
Unknown // Carole Anne Trisler
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via thebookquotes)