“Time never used to go by this way … As a child you felt things differently. Everything lasted so marvelously long! But now …”
— Wim Wenders, Norman Ohler, & Bernd Lange, from screenplay Palermo Shooting (Neue Road Movies, 2008)
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.” ― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
“A burnt child loves the fire.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Andrea Gibson, from The Madness Vase; “Piano”
[Text ID: “We all have bullets beneath our skin / we pray our lovers won’t flinch at when / they find. / We all have sirens in our light.”]
Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; “How I Learned to Love”
[Text ID: All I know of love is hunger.]
