“For a soul at peace with itself, water and night together seem to take on a common fragrance; it seems that the humid shadow has a perfume of double freshness. Only at night can we smell the perfumes of water clearly. The sun has too much odor for sunlit water to give us its own.”
— Water and Dreams, Gaston Bachelard
Foliation by Suze Woolf. Crystallite Selenite cover, laser-cut acrylic sheets, linen thread 🦋
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“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.”
— Lao Tzu
“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
— Anaïs Nin, Fire (via larmoyante)
“Of all the things keeping me from sleep, words weigh too much, yet not enough. Time weighs nothing at all, but I can’t bear it. And your body, burdened by minutes and ancient rites, is my favorite sad song.”
— Li-Young Lee, “Changing Places in the Fire” from The Undressing
“I do not want to be alone like this. Why have you not come back to haunt me? It is the least I would have expected of you. Why this silence day after day, night after interminable night? It is like a fog, this silence of yours. First it was a blur on the horizon, the next minute we were in the midst of it, purblind and stumbling, clinging to each other…Send back your ghost. Torment me, if you like. Rattle your chains, drag your cerements across the floor, keen like a banshee, anything. I would have a ghost.”
— John Banville, The Sea
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
— franz kafka, letters to milena
Someone once said to me, “I hope the pain eases soon.” It struck me as the purest blessing that had ever been offered over my head - I hope the pain eases soon. It’s so gentle, so kind, so hopeful. So to everyone who’s hurting: I see how hard you’re trying, and I hope your pain will ease soon.