"She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
"Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing."
- Jonathan Safran Foer (via introspectivepoet)
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via amortizing)
"I avoid doing things, because if I do not do them, I can’t be said to fail at them."
- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals; p. 524
(via quotablewomen)
"I was supposed to be having the time of my life."
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(via wordsnquotes)
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The Hole by Ohad Naharin
Performed by Batsheva Dance Company
"You don’t have to understand the work you are watching. The creator most likely doesn’t care to be understood; he/she just wants to be loved."
- Ohad Naharin (via kickyfeetvintage)
Duane Michals
Grandmother And Odette Visit The Park (1992) +
