TENDER DELICACIES

Hopeless wanderer with a tea stained heart.

[nudityandnerdery]

Make it a good one, kids.

[neckkiss]

6 Years (2015)

[quoted-books]

So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

Lidia Yuknavith, The Chronology of Water (via quoted-books)

[thebeiges]

[mareamo]

[timotaychalamet]

Masculin Féminin (1966) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

[mindo80]

Audrey Tautou on the set of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)

[arctichartt]

“She preferred most of all to live with flowers and music and to have a book, in quiet solitude.”

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse (trans. Jack Zipes)

[nehmesis]

“I am the self-portrait of a woman. She is flimsy as Tolstoy’s Karenina, brown hair tangled at the back, her lips softly parted (…)”

— excerpt of  “Portrait”,  Demi Ev.

[coffee-and-cinema-deactivated20]

“She was ravishingly pretty. She used to laugh extraordinarily often. He used to call her his “darling absurdity”–a name extremely appropriate.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Complete Works; “The Crocodile,” (edited)

[woolfdaily]

“My mind is filled with dreams of romantic meetings.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West written c. February 1935

[pigmenting]

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1944

[brownsharpie]

““A library is an infinite tangle of possible paths to the person you’ll be in a year, two, three, thanks to the books you stumble over by utter, delightful chance.””

— Catherynne Valente, from a speech called “We are all Wyveraries: a Love Letter to Libraries”

[co77y]

[amargedom]

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

— Kurt Cobain (via goodreadss)

[horrifying]

[demiiwhiffin]