“When you love someone, it’s never over. You move on because you have to, but you take them with you in your heart.”
— Elizabeth Chandler
i hope the anonymous person who sent the "i used to live in your house. i'm drunk in boston and it's the only address i know. happy holidays" postcard is aware that they wrote my favourite poem
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Audition (1999), Takashi Miike
“Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?”
– The Secret History
[text: Silly me. I thought love was real & the body imaginary.]
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“Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,
Of hate and remorse, I’m dying.
And again my hairy fist I raise,
And again I hear you crying” - Lolita
“I want you desperately. I want your strength and your softness, your hands, all of you.”
Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953’
“It’s your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want.”
Philip Pullman, from ‘The Amber Spyglass’
crawling out of august covered in blood