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You are the story I can’t write.
Every page of you
has to be torn out of me.—Medbh McGuckian, opening lines to section 2 “Story Between Two Notes” from “Porcelain Bells” in Captain Lavender (Wake Forest University Press, 1995)
Permalink | 608 notes "We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has."
— Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves (via pavorst)
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Permalink | 2,353 notes "I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship."
— Michelle Williams (via aspiretowritemore)
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Permalink | 354 notes "Let us turn the page
And see what is written
On the other side of the night." — Thomas McGrath, from “Graveyard Shift” (via the-final-sentence)
And see what is written
On the other side of the night." — Thomas McGrath, from “Graveyard Shift” (via the-final-sentence)
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