ladybug

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

llya Kaminsky, from “American Tourist”, Dancing in Odessa

— Barbara Kingsolver, "Insomniac Villanelle," How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

PORCO ROSSO (1992) dir. Hayao Miyazaki SPIRITED AWAY (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

i never wanted anything and i never got it . . .

– Haruki Murakami, After Dark

– Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

Georg Trakl, Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl: Poems Published in Der Brenner; from 'Lament', tr. Will Stone

llya Kaminsky, "Dancing in Odessa", Dancing in Odessa

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

no eclipse glasses we are experiencing things allegory of the cave style

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Lytton Strachey written c. December 1931, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol. IV: 1929-1931

And that was the first night I dreamt of Edward Cullen. TWILIGHT (2008)