“There’s something perverse about women … they’re all masochists at heart.”
—Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (via frenchtwist)
June 2012
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
—Buddha (via nirvikalpa)
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
—Haruki Murakami (via narcosis)
“There are some things about myself that I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail, the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared, I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.”
—Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat To China (via moscow)
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
—Francois Sagon (via shesinacoma)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via goodnumberone)
“In the end what you don’t surrender
Well the world just strips away” —Bruce Springsteen (Human Touch)
Well the world just strips away” —Bruce Springsteen (Human Touch)
“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”
—Marilyn Monroe (via eatmyhandbagbitch)
“It is a restless moment. She has kept her head lowered.. to give him a chance to come closer. But he could not, for lack of courage. She turns and walks away.”
—from In The Mood For Love (via eatmyhandbagbitch)
