[anatakeabow]

[anatakeabow]

[tantasletras]

“I can’t quit

you though

time and time again

you quit me.

I can’t quit the looking

though you and I are past

the time of epic wars. Wars

and love and love and wars

have disunited and united us.

All the same, I look back and looking back

I am reflected in that mirror,

you with your back to me,

me facing backwards. Little

one, I love

you. I can’t forget you.

You can’t forget me.

I won’t let you.”

Los Desnudos: A Triptych, Sandra Cisneros

[tantasletras]

              “You wouldn’t

the years I begged. Would

the years I wouldn’t. Only

one of us had sense at a time.”

I Am on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For, Sandra Cisneros

[tantasletras]

“

This weight on the other side of the bed is only books, not you. What I said I loved more than you. True.

  Though these mornings I wish books loved back.

”—Bay Poem from Berkeley, Sandra Cisneros

[tantasletras]

“Há o amor, é claro.

E há a vida, sua inimiga.”

Jean Anouilh (na epígrafe de Histórias de Amor, Rubem Fonseca)

[tantasletras]

“O amor é sexualmente transmissível”

Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios, Marçal Aquino

[tantasletras]

“Mas se cruzaram e deu no que deu, um ficou curioso pelo inferno do outro.”

Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios, Marçal Aquino

[tantasletras]

“Poucas vezes me senti tão confortável no mundo. E, no entanto, sofria por antecipação, o grande vazio que seria o resto da minha existência sem ela.

O que acontece é que, quando estou com você, eu me perdôo por todas as lutas que a vida venceu por pontos, e me esqueço completamente que gente como eu, no fim, acaba saindo mais cedo de bares, de brigas e de amores para não pagar a conta. Isso eu poderia ter dito a ela. Mas não disse.”

Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios, Marçal Aquino

[parischineseborder]

“Construímos a nossa própria vida para uma pessoa determinada e, quando, afinal, podemos recebê-la em nossa vida, essa pessoa não vem, depois morre para nós, e passamos a viver prisioneiros na moradia que só a ela era destinada. Eu estava sozinho e tinha vontade de morrer.”

(Proust)

[parischineseborder]

Elena Ferrante

[parischineseborder]

[slaughterhouse90210]

“I feel like you want to think that what you’re feeling is really deep, like some seriously profound existential shit. But to me, it looks like the most tired, average thing in the world, the guy who is all interested in a woman until the very moment when it dawns on him that he has her. Wanting only what you can’t have. The affliction of shallow morons everywhere.” –Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

[slaughterhouse90210]

“That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.” ― A.S. Byatt, Possession

[slaughterhouse90210]

“I’ve spent three years wanting a thing I knew would never make me happy. But that didn’t stop me wanting it. You were like a bad drug I couldn’t stop craving. My whole life was a kind of mourning for some evil drug I knew was bad for me. ”

–Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

[slaughterhouse90210]

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

[slaughterhouse90210]

“There’s lots of good fish in the sea…maybe…but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.” — D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover