#former selves – @anenlighteningellipsis on Tumblr

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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soracities

The girl I was now in my memory among my dead. On tears she’ll feed for a thousand years. On exile the sound of her voice.

Alejandra Pizarnik, excerpt from ‘Approximations, Buenos Aires 1956-1958′, Selected Poems (trans. Cecilia Rossi)

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dephus

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

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tarkovskologist

I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?’

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via renyls)

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