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Balanchine scoffed at critics’ attempts to “understand” his ballets, insisting that they were meant only to be appreciated for their beauty. “When you have a garden full of pretty flowers, you don’t demand of them, ‘What do you mean? What
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“For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.'
They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.”
― The Virgin Suicides
They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.”
― The Virgin Suicides
“Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
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