"If I ever see a flaw of yours, I'd say my eyes are the flawed ones."
- noorbradosti
“There are days that I cannot find the sun even though its right outside my goddamn window.”
— Neil Hilborn, “This is Not the End of the World” (via jewist)
"the feminine urge to compliment another woman."
“In November, we feel the hand of death closer at our backs. “Since the day of my birth,” writes Jean Cocteau, “my death began its walk. It is walking towards me without hurrying.””
— Nina MacLaughlin, from “Death’s Footsteps”, The Paris Review
“Heartbreak is not always blood and crushed ribs and waking up in the middle of the night because you were choking on your own tears in your sleep. Sometimes it’s simply standing in the middle of the supermarket, trying not to throw up on the floor and attempting to stop your teeth from chattering and figuring out which loaf of bread you’re getting a better deal on at the same time.”
— (via extrasad)
—Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
"How many times did I die without noticing?"
~Mahmoud Darwish
What the Living Do, Marie Howe
“If you open your eyes, night opens its doors of moss, opens the secret kingdom of water that flows from the center of night. If you close them, a river, a sweet and silent current, floods over you within, moves forward, darkens you: night soaks the riverbanks in your soul.”
— Octavio Paz, from The Poems of Octavio Paz; Nocturnal Water. Trans. Eliot Weinberger.
"We are captives of what we love, what we desire and what we are".
- Mahmoud Darwish