The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home… — Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via liquidnight)
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found… — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (via liquidnight)
I am afraid. I am not solid but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via frenchtwist)
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death, translation by Barbara Bray (via frenchtwist)
She bit her lip and turned her head a little and looked at me along her eyes. Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theater curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (via liquidnight)
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (via liquidnight)
I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via frenchtwist)
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera, Ignorance (via liquidnight)
Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you. H.P. Lovecraft, From Beyond (via frenchtwist)
In the absence of other lips, gnaw your own to pulp.

Eyes over there – depths – dream-filled looks, never fixed; here, mouths – abysses…
Claude Cahun, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), translation by Susan de Muth (via frenchtwist)