“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck
“Right away you reminded me of everyone I loved and wanted to be with. I totally froze, I had no words, I hardly uttered anything. We didn’t part yet but I already wanted to see...”
“I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love.”
— Charles Bukowski, “As the Sparrow” (via
larmoyante)
“Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
— Paul Engle
“But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way and in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness!”
“What do you say when the feelings don’t fit into words?”
“I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”
“You are, at once, both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
“My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.”