Charlotte Eriksson's Blog, page 24

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spen...

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“And who’s to say that just because something lasts only ...

“And who’s to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?”
― Alice Steinbach

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weltenwellen:Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

weltenwellen:

Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

jupit7r:Hope Sandoval by Lindsay Brice, 1994

jupit7r:

Hope Sandoval by Lindsay Brice, 1994

"In my dream I apologize to everyone I meet. Instead of introducing myself, I apologize for not..."

“In my dream I apologize to everyone I meet. Instead of introducing myself, I apologize for not knowing why I am alive. I am sorry. I am sorry. I apologize. In real life, oddly enough, when I am fully awake and out and about, if I catch someone’s eye, I quickly look away. Perhaps this too is a form of apology. Perhaps this is the form apologies take in real life. In real life the looking away is the apology, despite the fact that when I look away I almost always feel guilty; I do not feel as if I have apologized. Instead I feel as if I have created a reason to apologize, I feel the guilt of having ignored that thing—the encounter. I could have nodded, I could have smiled without showing my teeth. In some small way I could have wordlessly said, I see you seeing me and I apologize for not knowing why I am alive. I am sorry. I am sorry. I apologize. Afterwards, after I have looked away, I never feel as if I can say, Look, look at me again so that I can see you, so that I can acknowledge that I have seen you, so that I can see you and apologize.”

- Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

it’s okay if your art isn’t impressive to your...

it’s okay if your art isn’t impressive to your friends, it’s okay if you’re not very good at any of your hobbies, it’s okay if you don’t share your life on social media. you don’t have to be good and you don’t have to prove anything. your life isn’t a performance.
– Charlotte Eriksson

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"I get an odd feeling that this is a crucial moment in my life and I’m startled by the suddenness of..."

“I get an odd feeling that this is a crucial moment in my life and I’m startled by the suddenness of what I guess passes for an epiphany. There is nothing of value I can offer her. For the first time I see her as uninhibited; she seems stronger, less controllable, wanting to take me into a new and unfamiliar land — the dreaded uncertainty of a totally different world. I sense she wants to rearrange my life in a significant way — her eyes tell me this and though I see truth in them, I also know that one day, sometime very soon, she too will be locked in the rhythm of my insanity. All I have to do is keep silent about this and not bring it up — yet she weakens me, it’s almost as if she’s making the decision about who I am, and in my own stubborn, willful way I can admit to feeling a pang, something tightening inside, and before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love. I wonder if even now, right here in Nowheres, she can see the darkening clouds behind my eyes lifting. And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will.”

- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

"I’m not running away, I’m moving on."

“I’m not running away, I’m moving on.”

- Irvine Welsh