currently recovering
from a hiatus.

It was just that now his top priority was simply keeping himself secure, so for the time being he had to switch off any unnecessary emotional circuits and focus on the tasks at hand.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 

Love isn’t soft, like those poets say.
Love has teeth which bite,
and the wounds never close.

Stephen King, The Body 

Don’t you think that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife 

You seek a voice, but what do
you get? Silence.

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

Dec 19 +8
literature 

How sad they are,
the promises we never return to.

Jane Hirshfield, from Autumn Quince 

I always marvel at the humans’ ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief 

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends if the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there - to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.

pg 467, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 

I’m not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn’t?

Charles Bukowski, Pulp