Charlotte Eriksson's Blog, page 41

"You’ll get over it…“ It’s the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you..."

“You’ll get over it…“ It’s the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

- Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”

- Maya Angelou

"There are so many people who’ve come before us,arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools,..."

“There are so many people who’ve come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.”

- Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things

"I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand in the lawn,..."

“I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field across from the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock. There’s daytime silent where I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There’s shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then there’s the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore. That’s how this machine works.”

- Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

"Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and..."

“Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.”

- Kate McGahan, Reflections on Life with my Master

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Marina Tsvetayeva

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Friedrich Nietzsche

lesbeauan:metamorphesque: ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea[...

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― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[text ID: I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.]

[Plain Text ID: —Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea]

[Text ID: I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.]

"What is this impulse in me to worship & crucifyanyone who leaves me—"

“What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify
anyone who leaves me—”

- Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems