Bitter sweetness

A bit of a jaded romantic

[oneinchbarrier]

[macrolit]

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Corrie ten Boom (author of The Hiding Place, featured in our 20-book giveaway)

[dania88]

[sunsetquotes]

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

Jonathan Gottschall; The Storytelling Animal (via sunsetquotes)

[kafk-a]

There are countries, there are rivers, in your eyes, my country is your eyes,

Pablo Neruda, from Lovely One (via kafk-a)

[quotemadness]

But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.

Pablo Neruda (via quotemadness)

[sunsetquotes]

Art exists because life is not enough.

Ferreira Gullar (via sunsetquotes)

[smdouforuniverse-blog]

Me basta mirarte para saber que con vos me voy a empapar el alma.

Julio Cortazar. (via smdouforuniverse)

[pabloneruda-world]

Pablo Neruda. Pido silencio. Estravagario. [02]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

To feel you in my veins like God in the rivers

Pablo Neruda, first line to “Love,” Book of Twilight, trans. William O’Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)

[what-strange-lives-we-live]

I want so much that is not here and I do not know where to go.

Charles Bukowski (via what-strange-lives-we-live)

[midsommars-deactivated20201109]

Newness (2017) Directed by Drake Doremus

[lifeinpoetry]

You asked the part of me I kept hidden. It was every softness I didn’t give them,

the life awake, whole, trembling.

— Nomi Stone, from “War Game: Plug In the Role and Play,” published in Berfrois

[quotemadness]

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Rumi (via quotemadness)

[thelovejournals]

If you fall, I’ll pick you up, if not, I will lay down with you.

Julio Cortázar

original: “Si te caes te levanto, y sino, me acuesto contigo.”

(via thelovejournals)

[madeline-kahn]

Music in Film: Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

original score by Dario Marianelli

[lorde-daily]

Lorde in Birmingham (1/10)