Matthias Deckx

“For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“They simply had to fill this terrifying emptiness–otherwise, their brains might start working. Thinking is painful business.”
― Eileen Chang, Sealed Off

“I want you to know there’s someone in this world who’s yours always. Please know that, forever and wherever. Yours, always”
― Eileen Chang, Half a Lifelong Romance

“She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a bird embroidered onto a screen — a white bird in clouds of gold stitched onto a screen of melancholy satin. The years passed; the bird’s feathers darkened, mildewed, and were eaten by moths, but the bird stayed on the screen even in death.”
― Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City