#quotes and writings

[thewhitelilysociety]

“When watched today, the final film is a bag of contradictions. Lyon is made up with eyeliner, sooty lashes and permanently coiffed hair – and yet she sleeps in the nightdress of a Victorian doll, all ruffles, ribbons and bows.

When we first meet her she's rigidly placed and posed, gazing at Humbert over the top of her sunglasses. She looks imperious, knowing, and appears to be at least 18; she is not, as Nabokov describes in the book, "standing four feet ten in one sock". In a 1974 foreword to Lolita: A Screenplay, Nabokov admitted that "the frills of Miss Lyon's elaborate nightgown were painful.”

by Steph Green, from “The troubling legacy of the Lolita story, 60 years on”, written for BBC culture

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[nondelphic]

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[ptimepoet]

- Clementine Von Radics

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[lannegarrett]

I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

[thoughtcascades]

idk how to flirt but i can make things awkward if you're into that

[daughterofchaosstuff]

done healing my inner child. next up is my inner teen. her highness demands a sword.

[thereadmind]

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[abreathlessplace]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."