“Skin has good memory. Skin is like the ground we walk every day; you can read a whole history in it if you know how to look.”
— Caroline Kettlewell,
Skin Game (via
kiddings)
“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”
— Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 22 March...
“I make dark things beautiful and beautiful things dark.”
— Kerli Koiv
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the...”
“My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.”
“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”
“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain.”