passionandcoffee

The Netherlands

[golden-bliss]

[coffeebeansandpoetry]

[coffeebeansandpoetry]

[rererereree-deactivated20241031]

[soracities]

“He has beautiful hands, fine as earth, rough and warm like brown sand. Sometimes he lets me wash his back and shoulders, which is when I get the marvelling feeling most strongly. I have never told him about this.”

— Helen Simpson, from ‘Four Bare Legs in a Bed’, Four Bare Legs in a Bed: Stories

[behind--these--walls]

[detailedart]

Details#3 : Judith Beheading Holofernes, ca.1598-99, by Caravaggio.

[kushandwizdom]

Every level in your life will require a different version of you.

- Meggan Roxanne

[coffeebeansandpoetry]

Understanding things doesn’t happen over night.

[madeinthesixties]

nancy sinatra

[soracities]

“I don’t say: far away life is real with its imaginary places I say: life here is possible.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from ‘The Dice Player’, Mural (trans. John Berger & Rema Hammami)

[cocaineteas]

[y2kaestheticinstitute]

From ‘If You Had My Love’ - Jennifer Lopez (1999)

[huariqueje]

The Kiss  -  Egon Schiele  1915

Austrian 1890-1918

[adeles]

As Told by Ginger (2000-2006)

[soracities]

“But happiness, for me, is a strange, tumultuous feeling, composed of endless evasions, always in danger of collapse.”

— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

[soracities]

“I find value in thinking in stories. Aren’t we all woven through with stories? Isn’t that how we think of our lives, how we survive them? Now, when someone hurts me, I remember that they are only living the terms of their own fictions—sometimes desperately—so their selves don’t unravel.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, “Woven” from Guernica Magazine (via tristealven)

[heteroglossia]

Yehuda Amichai