Feeling and Dreaming

"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?" - Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

[tristamateer]

Should ever we meet on your side of the telephone, I would dive into you like a bomb shelter. You are the only thing I want to run towards instead of away from. I am sorry I keep leaving makeup stains on other people’s pillowcases. I don’t know what else to do when you are not around to tug my mouth in the right direction. If I were a peach, you’d be the only person I’d trust to get close to the pit of me. You are the only person I trust to get close to the pit of me. I hope you like fruit trees; I hope you like metaphors.

"Lover—" Trista Mateer (via tristamateer)

[feelinganddreaming]

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

[feelinganddreaming]

People help you time-travel. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits to whisper in your ear, "look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift your head up and you may notice.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

[feelinganddreaming]

Good for her! Not for me. That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

[feelinganddreaming]

I love saying "yes" and I love saying "please." Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

[feelinganddreaming]

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

[feelinganddreaming]

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

[feelinganddreaming]

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

[words-in-lines]

Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose. Tiny bears live in drain pipes. If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky. The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago. Everyone knows at least one secret language. When nobody is looking, I can fly. We are all held together by invisible threads. Books get lonely too. Sadness can be eaten. I will always be there.

Raul Gutierrez, “Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently”  (via 090108)

[feelinganddreaming]

I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.

Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

[feelinganddreaming]

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

[feelinganddreaming]

Until you realise that coincidences don't exist, your life will be filled with them

Andrew Kaufman, Born Weird

[feelinganddreaming]

"Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception - especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

[feelinganddreaming]

From the beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself.

Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

[feelinganddreaming]

Currently. Life is tough.

[feelinganddreaming]

I stumbled across this sculpture of Katherine Mansfield today in Wellington. It is almost entirely covered by her words, and is one of the best things I've ever seen.

[feelinganddreaming]

I am in lovely New Zealand now and unfortunately my Internet service is not as good as it was in Australia. This is me hugging a kauri tree.