“I am at one with a sea of sensations, glitter, silk, skin, eyes, mouths, desire.”
— Anaïs Nin (via blackshivers)
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (via wordsnquotes)
we’re splashing around and the news spread all over town
She was tired a lot, as if she was living not one life but two: her own, and another, shadowy life that hovered around her and would not let itself be realized—
– Margaret Atwood, from “Death by Landscape,” Wilderness Tips: Stories (Anchor Books, 1998)
“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”
— Joanne Harris (via wordsnquotes)