Rescape

“I hate myself because I screw up because I’m a screwup which is why nobody likes me, so I’ll hide and stop trying, so I won’t screw up again and make people angry and keep having to remember what a screwup I am.”

“gezelligheid”

“The silence of my heart is full of sound.”

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish….You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.“”

“The combination of that brilliant brain and fragile body is very loveable. She has a sweet and childlike nature, from which her intellect is completely separate. I have never known anyone who was so profoundly sensitive, and who makes less of a business of that sensitiveness.”

“The skin listens too.”

“It is time to love and purify oneself in the confused music of the heat and the sun.”

“I have, as you know, a passion for hands, which are more revealing than faces.”

“…and from your eyelids, furtively, the teardrops seep like pearls.”

“I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia—”

“I like simple things… books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

“…there are moments when I am almost frightened at the way you have invaded me […] I feel strangely exposed to you. Sometimes I seem to stand aside and marvel at your way of touching me here, now there.”

“…there are moments when I am almost frightened at the way you have invaded me […] I feel strangely exposed to you. Sometimes I seem to stand aside and marvel at your way of touching me here, now there.”

“It was my last act of love.”