February 2012
6 posts
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
– Anne Sexton (via misswallflower)
“She sat perfectly still, listening and looking always at the same spot. It...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via funeral)
August 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity - it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
(Life of Pi by Yann Martel)
April 2011
7 posts
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful as...
Where Children Sleep
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from James Mollison’s book Where Children Sleep
November 2010
4 posts
Boy & Bear - The Storm
Every pressurized system needs a relief valve. There has to be a way to reduce the stress, the tension, before it becomes too much to bear. There has to be a way to find relief because if the pressure doesn’t find a way out, it’ll make one. It will explode. It’s the pressure we put on ourselves that’s the hardest to bear. The pressure to be better than we are. The pressure to be better than we...
October 2010
17 posts
Weltschmerz
The depression that arises from comparing the world as it is to a hypothetical, idealised world
11:11
Another wish spent on the same thing I’ve been wishing for the past year, this is absolutely taking over my life day by day. I hardly know why I want this anymore, or whether I’ll even be able to deal with it if I do get it. Not to forget the past week, which has been making the tiny voice in my head telling me that I’m not good enough and that I don’t deserve it louder and...
September 2010
14 posts
