“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves? A story, after all, is a kind of swallowing. To open a mouth, in speech, is to leave only the bones, which remain untold.”
01 — princess aurora, sleeping beauty : “aurora in the film is not a person, per se; she is the prize that the other characters fight over. [...] she doesn’t act; she is acted upon. she is definitely not the hero of the story.”
02 — from i, etcetera, susan sontag
03 — maru mori, blue period : “do you know the origin of art? there are many theories, but one says it started as prayer. that’s why i put a prayer in my art.”
04 — ophelia, hamlet : “with her identity constructed always in reference to another, ophelia is, in essence nothing, an empty cipher waiting to be infused with meaning. [...] it is only once she is mad that ophelia finds the ability to speak out against the injustices done to her and to those around her.”
05 — from beautiful world, where are you?, sally rooney
06 — mima kirigoe, perfect blue : “well . . . how do you think you know that the person you were a second ago is the same person you are now? a continuous stream of memories. given only that, we all create illusions within ourselves, saying that we each have only one fixed persona.”
07 — from everyone, mitski
08 — scheherazade, one thousand and one nights : “so captivating and mesmerising were her charm and her storytelling capabilities, it was almost dawn before anyone realised. clever scheherazade ended the night’s storytelling on a captivating turn, leaving her audience on edge, wanting more. the sultan was so engrosssed in scheherazade’s story that - to everyone’s surprise - he allowed her to live one extra night to finish it.”
