Charlotte Eriksson's Blog, page 1363

At night when everyone is silent and everything is still, I lie in the darkness of my windowless...

At night when everyone is silent and everything is still, I lie in the darkness of my windowless room, the place where they exile me from the community of their heart, and search the unmoving blackness to see if I can find my way home. I tell myself stories, write poems, record my dreams. In my journal I write—I belong in this place of words. This is my home. This dark, bone black inner cave where I am making a world for myself.

—bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

"I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the..."

“I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.”

- Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

The smell of summer-rain is one of my favorite things & it...

The smell of summer-rain is one of my favorite things & it sounds like the sweetest music. 

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"She sat there filled with champagne. She talked about hashish and it’s effects. I said, “I have..."

“She sat there filled with champagne. She talked about hashish and it’s effects. I said, “I have known such states without hashish. I do not need drugs. I carry all that in myself.” At this she was a little angry. She did not realise that I achieved those states without destroying my mind. My mind must not die, because I am a writer. I am the poet who must see. I am not just the poet who can get drunk on June’s beauty.”

- Anäis Nin, Henry and June

I want to spend summer in France, making frequent day-trips to markets, reading books, watching...

I want to spend summer in France, making frequent day-trips to markets, reading books, watching black-and-white movies, and writing. I want to keep a garden, ride trains to Paris and Cannes and Marseilles, and take the Chunnel to England.

I want to spend autumn in Germany, hiking through the woods and taking pictures of the trees, visiting museums, studying language, drinking good wine and sitting by camp-fires with a scarf and mitts. I want to get lost in Neuschwanstein Castle and go mountain-hiking. 

I want to spend winter in Sweden. I want to ski and eat good food, make snow angels and window-shop in Stockholm when it’s dark and the lights are on. I want to spend time whale-watching and Christmas-decorating and coffee-drinking.

I want to spend spring in Spain; When it isn’t unbearably hot, when the streets aren’t teeming with tourists and the ceiling fans are on. I want to spend every morning in an old coffee shop and every evening on the beach. I want to bake and watch soccer, party in Madrid and Barcelona, and take a bus to Portugal on weekends. 

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“When I’m running I don’t have to talk to anybody...

“When I’m running I don’t have to talk to anybody and don’t have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can’t do without.” 
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

"Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness."

“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”

- Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

"‘no’ might make them angrybut it will make you free."

“‘no’

might make them angry

but

it will make

you

free.”

- if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger, nayyirah waheed