+ "That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it."
—
Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem
+ "I didn’t choose poetry: poetry chose me."
—
Philip Larkin(Source: theparisreview)
+
basis, n.
There has to be a moment at the beginning when you won-
der whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the
feeling of love itself.
If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done.
And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far.
It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back.
Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were search-
ing for something else, like an escape route, or your lover’s
face.
— David Levithan, from The Lover’s Dictionary
+ "But I still love the relative, not the absolute: the cabbage and the warmth of a fire, Bach on the phonograph, and laughter, and talk in the cafés, and a trunk packed for departure, with copies of
Tropic of Cancer, and Rank’s last SOS and the telephone ringing all day, good-bye, good-bye, good-bye …"
—
Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 1931-1934, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann
Favourite final sentences
+ "I need to be alone … I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
—
Henry Miller, from Tropic of Cancer(Source: coquettesfancy, via journalofanobody)
+
abberant, adj.
“I don’t normally do this kind of thing,” you said.
“Neither do I,” I assured you.
Later it turned out we had both met people online before,
and we had both slept with people on first dates before, and
we had both found ourselves falling too fast before. But we com-
forted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was:
“I don’t normally feel this good about what I’m doing.”
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it.
— David Levithan, from The Lover’s Dictionary
+ "Then he thinks about the idea of a museum: the physical record of things; the history of miracles; the miracle of nature and the miracle of hope and perseverance, arranged in such a way as to never be forgotten, or lost, or simply mistaken for everyday things with no particular significance."
—
Simon Van Booy, from The City of Windy Trees, in Love Begins in Winter
Favourite final sentences
+ "Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is."
—
Saul Bellow, from Herzog(Source: fuckyeahliteraryquotes, via lifeinpoetry)
+
Alice Walker, from The Color Purple
(Source: aseaofquotes)
+ "… restless, full of displaced, clashing energies."
—
Drusilla Modjeska, from The Orchard(Source: weissewiese, via heliophobus)
