Melissa Broder, from “Life without Longing,” The New York Times (9 February 2019)
my two eternal love moods are, officially:
- loving something so much i never ever stop talking about it
- loving something so much i never, ever talk about it
Melissa Broder, from “Life without Longing,” The New York Times (9 February 2019)
J.K. Rowling
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by N. C. Germanakos, from “Kassandra and the Wolf,”
Elisabeth Hewer, from “Dove Hands” in Wishing for Birds
Franz Kafka
Clarice Lispector, from Complete Stories; “Obsession”
Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless
Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (Mariner Books, 1969)
Michel de Montaigne
Laurence Olivier, from a letter to Vivien Leigh
Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
you know that person in your life whom you've known for a while who's still somewhat distant but you're there for them in every possible way like yeah of course honey i wanna wrap you up in blankets when you're cold and take you travelling and show you things you've never seen that'll make you gasp in awe and wonder and make you tea and nurse you when you're sick and dump a litter of puppies AND a basket of kittens in your lap when you're sad but also be your drinking mate and maybe make love once in a while and share each others' demons but it's cool it's cool i just adore your very existence including all your fallibilities everything about you that's all i love and adore you can i wash your feet? hem your trousers?