So, I am sorry,
for I do not
always speak
everything
that’s on my mind,
because sometimes
people refuse to hear
what they don’t want
to understand.
Closed Mouth, Open Mind //ma.c.a
“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via booksqouted)
“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I can’t hold you and I can’t leave you,”
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. by Judith Thurman, from “Sonnets of Love and Discretion,”
“You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”
— Tracy Chevalier, Girl With A Pearl Earring
“What do I want? I want you to talk about normal things. No I don’t. I want you to look me in the eye and say, I know you’re dying.”
— Margaret Atwood, from Good Bones and Simple Murders; “Death Scenes,”
