Diamond, the only trouble with you is, you’d like to be me. You’d like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can’t, it’s impossible. You think it’s money. It’s not. It’s personality. You haven’t got it. You’re a cop. Slow. Steady. Intelligent. With a bad temper and a gun under your arm. With a big yen for a girl you can’t have. First is first and second is nobody. The Big Combo (1955) dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley / the Monster’s Bride BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) dir. James Whale
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Directed by: Robert Wiene
"Grief, I have learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."
– Jamie Anderson
"What is grief if not love persevering?"
– WandaVision, Episode 8
"And when I turned to face grief, I saw it was just love in a heavy coat."
– Shannon Barry
Jasmin Lee Cori, The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect
i’m not easy to love, i know, i know, i know
1. Kim Addonizio | 2. yves olade | 3. @titsay | 4. Chelsea Carr | 5. l.m. dorsey | 6. @asoftwrongness | 7. nicole homer | 8. daughter | 9. downeaster
i’m not easy to love, i know, i know, i know
1. Kim Addonizio | 2. yves olade | 3. @titsay | 4. Chelsea Carr | 5. l.m. dorsey | 6. @asoftwrongness | 7. nicole homer | 8. daughter | 9. downeaster
1. Sunspots - Nickie Zimov / 2. Smother - Daughter / 3. Liability - Lorde / 4. Last Kiss - Elaine Speirs / 5. Writer in the Dark - Lorde / 6. For Women Who Are “Difficult” to Love - Warsan Shire / 7. The Kiss - Edvard Munch
— Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”
— Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Stanley Pennell
and while i’m in this body, i want somebody to want
litany in which certain things are crossed out by richard siken // ? // summer by safia elhillo // blood wedding and yerma by federico garcia lorca // holly warburton // little beast by richard siken // scene of deluge by joseph-désiré court // the angel experiment by james patterson // when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities by chen chen // moon song by phoebe bridgers
But I protect myself, I surround myself with books, their silence does not demand anything, they exist , they are alive , they are for anyone to open, unlike us human being.
–Bo Carpelan, tr. by David McDuff , from "Urwind". Published c. 1993
"I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break."
-Marya Hornbacher, Wasted