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Clarice Lispector, from The Departure of the Train, quoted by Olivia Sudjic in “Self-Surveillance in the Internet Age”

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“Her lucidity was the raw brightness of the moonlight itself;”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Chandelier,” originally published c. 1946

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@lena.brrd

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Elizabeth Taylor resting during the filming of Suddenly, Last Summer in Spain, 1959

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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

— Louise Erdrich

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“Want everything. Sky, wine, books, love.”

— Leslie Kaplan, from The Silence of the Devil; “Translating Is Sexy,”

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““When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.” — Iyanla Vanzant”

— Iyanla Vanzant (via naturaekos)

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“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via naturaekos)

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“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of ‘living a lie’. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”

— Lynn Barber (via naturaekos)

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“Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange. The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth

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“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via naturaekos)

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“She had such a thirst for destruction,”

— Marcel Proust, from The Complete Works; “In Search of Lost Time,”

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“Years pass. I don’t solve anything. Someone breaks the images and they break again, I hear the identity of the song. The song is passing like a wave.”

— Michael Burkard, from “The Song Is Passing like a Wave,” Fictions from the Self ( W. W. Norton & Company, 1988)

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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.”

— Maya Angelou

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“What if I never forget you? What if, for the rest of my life when I meet someone new, I can never fall for them because they aren’t you?”

— What If / Unrequited Love

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In March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. February 1953 (via violentwavesofemotion)