Simone Weil's 'The List of Temptations (to be read daily)' from her diary

what a shame doctors don’t prescribe vacation to secluded seaside towns like they used to

kitokito_life

"JEFFREY PINE" (SENTINEL DOME) ANSEL ADAMS // YOSEMITE, c. 1940 [gelatin silver print | 7 1/4 x 9 3/8"]

Amy would never have left the house with the teakettle on. Or the door open. Or anything waiting to be ironed. The woman got shit done, and she was not one to abandon a project (say, her fixer-upper husband, for instance), even if she decided she didn’t like it. She’d made a grim figure on the Fiji beach during our two-week honeymoon, battling her way through a million mystical pages of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, casting pissy glances at me as I devoured thriller after thriller. Since our move back to Missouri, the loss of her job, her life had revolved (devolved?) around the completion of endless tiny, inconsequential projects. The dress would have been ironed.

“… I felt a spear of admiration for the girl. When I’d been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I’d wanted attention, I’d submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma’s sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.”

— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

— Sidney Sheldon

privacy is the last true luxury. to be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about it.

"Her hair cropped in a short, boyish bob, she stands shirtless, wearing her famous necklace of chrome-plated ball bearings, atop a snowy mountain, arms outstretched, her bare back to the camera. 'That photograph of a strong woman, triumphantly embracing nature, is the perfect image of my mother,' says Pernette Perriand. 'She announces the contemporary woman, emancipated and free.'" - Laurie Hurwitz

on the beach at night alone (2017) dir. hong sang-soo