“The body remembers everything the mind wants to forget.” - Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

They say you spend your whole life rewriting the first poem you ever loved.

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

– Audrey Hepburn

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

-Rumi

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)