The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
“I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
“The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.”
― Boomerang
― Boomerang
“I have never met anyone who gave back a heart they stole.”
―
―
“You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
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