Sound and smell of the ocean.🥂

bernhard schlink / in the mood for love / ocean vuong / anne carson / moonlight / hieu nguyen / druck / lucy keating / atypical

[ID: a collection of excerpts of text + scenes from films and tv shows.

1. "I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else."

2. a screencap from in the mood for love that shows mrs. chan resting her head on chow mo-wan's shoulder while crying.

3. "Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined."

4. "As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face daily is that of touching one another— whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional, or imaginary. Contact is crisis. As the anthropologists say, "every touch is a modified blow."

5. a screencap from moonlight that shows black resting his head on kevin's shoulder while kevin's hand rests on black's head.

6. "What do you do with tenderness / when all you expect is fury?"

7. a screencap from druck that shows matteo hugging david.

8. “It surprises me, how a gesture so small can feel so very big. How sometimes you don’t realize the nervousness or sadness you were holding deep inside until the touch of someone you love lets it out of you, like your entire body is exhaling.”

9. a screencap from atypical that shows casey and izzie resting their foreheads against each other's.

End ID]

Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒐, 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒚 🇮🇹

Mood of the Year... Leave your bad Energy over There 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽

I think I’m getting better and then everything gets bad again. 

Anne Sexton, from A Self-portrait in Letters

Van life 🧡

on touch, trust, and fear

Anne Carson, “Dirt and Desire - Essay on the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity”  |  In the Mood for Love, dir. Wong Kar-wai  |  May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude  |  Louise Glück, “Epithalamium”  |  photographer unknown (via @birsiyahhikayesi  ) |  Mary Ruefle, “The Cart”

wzc douyin update 250421

Your next chapter is going to cause some people to wish they had treated you better.

2021 mood😀

85% tired 15% also tired

28.03.2021 “Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.” - Virginia Woolf

Instagram: @phdoingmydamnbest

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; September 16th, 1965

Text ID: Oh, isn’t my life the most beautiful work that I could accomplish! Yes, I will always stay me for me, me.

soul

www.instagram.com/sheisapoem

“i know it hurts sometimes but you’ll get over it”

Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.