Charlotte Eriksson's Blog, page 1368

"It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’..."

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”

- Danzy Senna

mostly-empty:I need to keep telling myself this

mostly-empty:

I need to keep telling myself this

"You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I..."

“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”

- Daniel Franzese

"I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field,..."

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

- Sylvia Plath

I’d like to drive here in the middle of the night with the...

I’d like to drive here in the middle of the night with the wind in my hair and loud music and nothing but freedom. 

“Why aren’t you in school? I see you every day wandering around.”“Oh, they...

“Why aren’t you in school? I see you every day wandering around.”

“Oh, they don’t miss me,” she said. “I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn’t it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.” She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. “Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don’t think it’s social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That’s not social to me at all. It’s a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it’s wine when it’s not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can’t do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around …. I guess I’m everything they say I am, all right. I haven’t any friends. That’s supposed to prove I’m abnormal.” 

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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Anne Petty

Anne Petty

Music helped me find my identity.

Music helped me find my identity.

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