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Andrea Gibson

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{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

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It's hard to believe that someone might be dying of thirst when you yourself are drowning.

-Simsesej

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I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.

~Slyvia path

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Magic is funny in that way: It chooses those who might not choose themselves.

-The Language of Spells,Garret Weyr

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A man who can't love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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I'm not going to tell you that in ten years you'll look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking, because I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that 'me' was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that 'me' is fluid and shape-changing. So whatever you're feeling now, it's temporary.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are forever.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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She'd understood, because she was both a romantic and a realist. Which in many ways was the perfect combination.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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He's not handsome in the traditional sense of the word but has the air of a man who has long ago accepted his physical limitations and shifted all the focus to his personality.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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The blame game could be exhausting sometimes. The blame game could make you lose your mind...all the infinitesimal outcomes, each path breaking up into a million other paths every time you heedlessly chose one, taking you on a journey that you'd never find your way back from.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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May was like the Friday night of the summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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Neither of them were setting the world alight but then whose children did? All those hopes and dreams and talk of ballerinas and pop stars, concert pianists and boundary-breaking scientists. They all ended up in an office. All of them.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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See," he says, "you took your hands from mine. Is this how it is destined always to be for us? You take your hands from mine? You close the door without looking back? You put the phone down before I do? You leave first? You have the last word? I linger behind, in your wake?" "Maybe," she says. "I'm pretty sure that's how I work." "I'll take what I can get," he says, rolling back to his side of the bed and pulling the duvet over himself. "I'll take what I can get.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it's like I go back in to the dream

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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Stories," she says, "are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

And Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell

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I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all. That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted ‘change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath