i watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory...Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife i envy you. every moment. you can leave me. i cannot leave myself.Anna Świrszczyńskatumblr
i put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.Sandra Cisneros, The House On Mango Street words about love turn red and gold as soon as they fall from my fingers, and i can break bea...
but still, i find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that i got through yesterday, ill get through today. Gayle Forman, Where She Went people disappeared, rea...
...and to hear an empty memory, a soft song far away from the sea. O.H. Fever, Whispers ive often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake. Federico Garcia Lorca we ki...
i tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoir these and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. they were rea...
i want to put my fingers on your palms and give you my words, and you could fix them; say them back to me as i meant them with your lips on mine, lending them a rhythm that i could never find. Isabel...
i see nothing. we may sink and settle on the waves. the sea will drum in my ears. the white petals will bedarkened with sea water. they will float for a moment and then sink. rolling over the waves w...
i will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. we will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the water b...
i cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again. Anna Akhmatova when i put my hands on your body on your flesh i feel the history of that body. not ju...
but a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.Hans Chrisian Andersen, The Little Mermaid nouns, verbs do not exist for what i feel.John Berryman, EpiloguetumblrThank you for the ...
last time we went swimming, the sea stood up and hugged youas though you were responsible for keeping it blue.Bianca Stewart your eyes were empty honey jars, crystalline and translucent,but fil...
but you come back with spiderweb cracks in your skin, bleeding milk light like sunshine bursting from the dark moon sky, ready for life. Anne Vargethe blood from my hand sometimes tinged them with th...
she undresses in the paradise of her memory. she is unawareof her visions, her fierce. she is scared of not knowing howto name what does not exist. Alejandra Pizarnik &...
someone, and no matter where, collects the pieces of my shadow.Claude Esteban like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.John Keats i have always been intrigu...
she always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.Joanne Harris, The Girl With No Shadow a merm...
sometimes i would hold my breath until i could hear the ocean in my head. it was a soft roar of sky fighting sea while my eyes rolled like waves. Nirrimi when my legs begin to twitch and my chest beg...
in this world, love has no color - yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.Izumi Shikibu he smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. she made sea sounds; something fl...
the room is full of the incandescence you poured into me. the room will explode when i sit at the side of your bed and you talk to me. i dont hear your words: your voice reverberates agai...
tonight, her name is a leaf covering my left eye. the right i close for the wind to stitch shut with thread from the dress she wore into the grace where the determined roots of the tree are makinga b...
she wasn’t doing a thing that i could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.J.D. Salinger i thought the earth remembered me. she took me back so te...
since you walked out on me, i am getting lovelier by the hour. i glow like a corpse in the dark. no one sees how round and sharpmy eyes have grown, how my carcass look like glass urn, or howi hold up...
by watching, i know that the stars are not going to last. i have seen someof the best ones melt and run down the sky. since one can melt, they can all melt; since they can all melt, they can all melt...
there was a star riding through clouds one night, and i said to the star, "consume me".Virginia Woolf, The Waves i consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy...
somewhere in his body, perhaps in the marrow of his bones, he could continue to feel her absence. Haruki Murakami when the sky is high and the ocean is deep; when the wind is singing and the stars ar...
i wasnt just the madwomen in the attic,i was the attic itself. the past was allover me, all under me, all inside me.Elizabeth Wurtzel i watched the cinders crawl up my arms, licking...
perhaps they were right putting love into books. perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner i should have thought in a dream you would have brought some lovely, perilous thing, orchids...
dress. undress again.you have me like a drawing,erased, colored in, untitled by your tongue.carol ann duffy we must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by infinite...
i can see every fiber of your soul billowing violently in the wind darling, you are a wild spark that not even a hurricane can extinguish. and i got to wondering. i wondered about y...
we are so lightly here.it is in love that we are made,in love we disappear. leonard cohen and i got to wondering. i wondered about you in a way i would only ever wondered abou...
i am all in a sea of wonders. i doubt; i fear; i think strange things, which i dare not confess to my own soul. Dracula i cant think of you without my heart taking flight.i love the way your laugh ti...
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