“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged.”
“My heart is so tired.”—
Markus Zusak
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight’, I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.”— Haruki Murakami (via quotemadness)
“Winter light shining like grief in your hair, black as the wing of a crow, and like joy. The old year dying around us then; the weather all bright wind, wild and clear.”— Cecilia Woloch, ‘New Year’, in Narcissus
hoping for a better life
12/30/18