bluebeardsbride:
1. Virginia Woolf, The Waves
2. Wendy Xu, ‘Retrospective’
3. Angela Carter, ‘The Bloody Chamber’
4. Hannibal 3.5, ‘Contorno’ (2015) dir. Guillermo Navarro
5. Richard Siken, ‘Birds Hover the Trampled Field’
6. Une Femme Mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
7. Hélène Cixous, The Perjured City
oldworldasshole:
Good Omens + Oscar Wilde Quotes 4/?
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
shebsart:
‘’ She stood on the end of the dock, pale and goosefleshed and shivering in the fog. In her hand, Needle seemed to whisper to her. Stick them with the pointy end, it said, and, don’t tell Sansa! Mikken’s mark was on the blade.
It’s just a sword. If she needed a sword, there were a hundred under the temple. Needle was too small to be a proper sword, it was hardly more than a toy. She’d been a stupid little girl when Jon had it made for her. “It’s just a sword,” she said, aloud this time …
… but it wasn’t.
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell’s grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan’s stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow’s smile.
He used to mess my hair and call me “little sister,” she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.’‘
"Over the course of his life Garak had met many people who had ended up wanting to kill him, and regretfully most of these had extremely good reason."
—Deep Space Nine novel “Enigma Tales” — Una McCormack
He looked to Gabrielle, who stood near the fire, and then to me. And silently, he said, Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me. This silent entreaty had an eloquence, however, that I can’t put into words. “What can I do to make you love me? ” he whispered. “What can I give? The knowledge of all I have witnessed, the secrets of our powers, the mystery of what I am?”
Armand and Lestat, The Vampire Lestat (1985) - Anne Rice
“Fool,” he said again. His voice was roughened now by emotion he couldn’t suppress. “I have always loved you,” he said. “I have loved you more than any being in all the world whom I’ve ever loved. I have loved you more than Louis. I have loved you more even than Marius. And you have never given me your love. I would be your most faithful counselor, if you allowed it. But you don’t. Your eyes pass over me as if I don’t exist. And so they always have.”
Armand and Lestat, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018) - Anne Rice
albion-sails-on-course:
“Carl: I actually used to sleep with a knife [in reference to the following lyrics: “You’re the only lover I’ve had / Who slept with a knife”]
Peter: Yeah, what’s strange is that he actually used to sleep with a knife.”
— YES SO VERY STRANGE. Still my favourite quote. Les In Rocks, September 2015 (via missoneminute)
emanon92:
“Ah, [my story with Carl] it is has not [ended]…but it will never end. Everyone has someone in their life whom they love, but in some way or another, the relationship was abandoned by one of them, or by both of them. You become strangers and you realize that the person you love most in the world, you do not know them anymore. It is very difficult….Well, it’s not hard to love someone who you do not know, but it is a little absurd, and there are too many absurd things in my life. In my eyes, I set aside something important in The Libertines, left them stuck in limbo, as a great mystery, the mystery of what would happen….We were supposed to be a huge group, that was our goal, our path, that was part of our plan: to break through, to reach as many hearts and souls as possible…We talked late into the night [in Barcelona], and embraced, and reunited in an infinite Arcadian reverie…an Arcadian celebration. Yes, it seems to have existed forever, perfectly. It will exist as long as there is laughter and tears…The meaning may change…but I think, freedom, the luxury of being at liberty, it is slightly different each time, and that is the way it has always been, for everyone. To be united in an emotion is very precarious, it’s not like being united behind a flag, or a particular victory, it is very delicate…”
— Peter Doherty, Rock & Folk Magazine, 2014 (x)
quietnowherebesideyou:
“Whatever personal clarity they’ve attained has done nothing to dilute their music’s heroic wastedness. They still nail the accidentally poignant sound of grasping for heaven while falling from a window.”
— Rolling Stones review of Anthems for Doomed Youth
(via leguin)
