my dear friend

When the pair almost kiss while listening to Kath Bloom’s “Come Here” in the record store booth, Delpy and Hawke’s reactions were authentic.

LINKLATER: That’s the only time I withheld anything from the cast. The lyrics were in the script, but they had never actually heard the song. So you can see them really listening because they’d never heard that yearning, creaky thing in Kath Bloom’s voice that’s so moving.

HAWKE: It’s probably my single favorite take of anything I’ve been involved with.

DELPY: That was really special. It was like magic — each time I felt Ethan looking away, I would look at him and vice versa. I almost fell in love with him right there, but then Rick said cut.

mostly, i just want to be kind — mary oliver

i've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and i've never let it keep me from doing a single thing i wanted to do. — georgia o’keeffe

i want to face the force of life / weaponless — karin boye

the battle is short and it’s worthwhile being sincere — vincent van gogh

from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am in them and that is eternity. — edvard munch

it is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. it’s as simple as that. — tove jansson

i recognize only one duty, and that is to love. — albert camus

is that what art is? to be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us? — ocean vuong

you listen and you know you could live a better life than you do, be softer, kinder — mary oliver

i believe in love [...] i believe we can save each other. in fact i think we must save each other — james baldwin

if the world is falling apart, i have to say the truth. but i don’t stop being in love with the world — ilya kaminsky

part of the terror is to take back our own listening. to use our own voice. to see our own light — hildegard von bingen

i think of beauty as an absolute necessity. i don’t think it’s a privilege or indulgence, it’s not even a quest. i think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. — toni morrison