Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground

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Pale Blue Eyes // The Velvet Underground

“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.”
–Franz Wright, One Heart (via human-voices)

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
–Henry David Thoreau (via misswallflower)

“[when i recovered consciousness,
i was told that you were lost to me forever.
i want the chance
to answer your question.
yes, i recognised you.]
i feel you deeply still.”
–Tina Shireen Salleh, from wave: a short story (via the-final-sentence)

“She was wearing one of my pajama suits, and had the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A moment later she asked me if I loved her. I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I supposed I didn’t. She looked sad for a bit, but when we were getting our lunch ready she brightened up and started laughing, and when she laughs I always want to kiss her.”
–Albert Camus, L’Étranger (via lovelessramblings)

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I left no trace of myself in his home
save for a ring on his bedside table
from a cup of coffee he made me
in the morning.

Come and go, I come and go.

At times I had loved like a phantom.
I left nothing but the smallest traces:
a mark on the neck of a man who never
noticed it, a…

“But then he tells me good-bye anyway.”
–Laurie Faria Stolarz, from Deadly Little Secret (thanks, inloveandinaworldoflostthings)