Bakeneko’s most recent Quotables

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

She had burning things inside her that would not keep quiet.

At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we are living.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I’ll read him tomorrow.)

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

The future is just old age and illness and pain...I must have peace and this is the only way.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

I have a single heartbreak
I celebrate and mourn

I'd woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.