"You say you love rain but you open your umbrella. You say you love the sun but you find a shadow spot. You say you love wind but you close your windows. This is why I am afraid when you say you love me."
-William Shakespeare
-William Shakespeare
"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain."
- Catherine Breillat
- Catherine Breillat
I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.
-Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King
-Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King
Something inside it reminds me of childhood- it is the light of the stalled time after lunch when clocks tick
and hearts shut and fathers leave to go back to work and mothers stand at the kitchen sink pondering
something they never tell. You remember too much, my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?
and hearts shut and fathers leave to go back to work and mothers stand at the kitchen sink pondering
something they never tell. You remember too much, my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?