Dream land

Don't wake me up!

[temo-nemo]

"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend." - Coco Mellors

[temo-nemo]

"A veil will now forever separate us, but it's a thin veil ... and I am always on the other side, face pressed up against your longing .... desperately alive and desperately fragile."

[temo-nemo]

[temo-nemo]

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet,A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

Romeo to Benvolio,

Romeo and Juliet (1.1.181–185)

[temo-nemo]

ART

Art is tragedy. Art is loss. It’s the fleeting breath of a foregone moment, the intimacy of things undone, the summer season that passes. It's the pealed lemon and bony fish in the corner of a Dutch still life, rotten and dead and gone. It's him lying next to you, legs tangled with yours, only to know he'll be a specter in your thoughts by next month, next week, ten minutes from now. This is what makes it art, Charlotte, and you've always understood that. You've always understood, above everything, that what makes beauty is pain.