“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.”
“I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.”
— Marjorie Liu
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
“Others were never sure
whether she vanished within things,
or if it was things that vanished
within her.”
—
Michael Tweed, from ‘The Beautiful Foolishness of Things’.
“…and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
—
Emily Dickinson, from ‘Letters of Emily Dickinson’, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd.
“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)