I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
Rick Bass: The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana
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Alexandra Levasseur, Feminine Mystery Of Being One With Nature // Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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Spooky Paintings by Dillon Samuelson // Ingmar Bergman, from the film Ansiktet ( Svensk Filmindustri, 1958)
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MitchGrave, Ghost Inside the Fridge // Tom Shropshire // Mahmoud Darwish, from ‘Mural’, Mural (trans. John Berger & Rema Hammami)
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