Love. Devotion. Surrender.

“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”

<Yoko Ono.>

“Great loves too must be endured.”  <Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel.>

Coco, my ultimate fashion hero. ;)

Outside, 

Beyond what is right and wrong, 

There exists a vast field. 

We will find each other there. 

<Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.>

To R,

Maybe you were there and I wasn’t.  But then again, maybe I was there and you were not… my dear.  Let the games begin. :)

                                                                                                          -M.

“If I were in love with somebody and we happened to be from separate sides of the conflict but we were in love before the conflict started, how far would I be able to go? How much could I be open to, and when would I start to close off? Is it love, or is it survival?”

<Angelina Jolie Voight/ for Marie Claire January 2012.>

I am so catching In The Land of Blood and Honey! ;)

“Be not inhospitable to strangers/ Lest they be angels in disguise.” <WB Yeats/ poet, playwright, prophet.  Quote also painted on the wall of Shakespeare and Co., 37 Rue Bûcherie 75005 Paris.>

I am deeply saddened by the passing of Paris literary scene’s legendary icon.

Thank you for bringing unparalleled joy to us bibliophiles around the world through Shakespeare and Co.

Your jewel box of a bookshop is the most beautiful I have ever been in and no doubt the one I’ll always always love the most, the world over.

R.I.P., Mr. George Whitman.

December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.   <Angelina Jolie Voight.>

You’re the shizz Angie! ;)

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”  <Audrey Kathleen Ruston.>

“I want to be a lost poem in a stranger’s coat pocket, that conveys the importance of you.

To assure you of my desire, to assure you of dreams. I want all the possibilities of you in writing.

I want to give you your reflection, I want your eyes on me, I want to travel to the lightness with you and stay there, and I want everything before you…

…everything before you to follow us like a trail behind me.

I want never to say goodbye to you, even on the street corner or the phone.

I want, I want so much… I’m breathless.

I want to put my power into a poem to burn a hole in your pocket so I can sew it.

I want my words to scream through you. I want the poem not to mean that much.

And I want to contradict myself by accident, and for you to know what I mean.

I want you to be distant and for me to feel you close, I want endless days when it’s day and… nighttime never to end when it’s night.

I want all the seasons in one day. I want the sun to set before us and come up in front of us.

I want water up to our waists and to be drenched by the rain, up to our ankles with holes in our shoes.

…with holes in our shoes. I want to think your thoughts because they’re mine.

I want only what’s urgent with you.

I want to get in the way of the barriers and I want you to be a tough guy when you’re supposed to, like you do already.

…when you’re supposed to. And I want you to be tender, like you do already.

And I want us to have met for a reason and I want that reason to be important.

And I want it to be bigger than us, I want it to take over us.

I want to forget. I want to remember us.

And when you say you love me I don’t want to think you really mean New York City, and all the fun we have in it.

And I want your smile always, and your grimaces too.

I want your scar on my lips, and I want your disappointments in my heart.

I want your strength in my soul and I want your soul in my eyes.

I want to believe everything you say, and I do.

And I want you to tell me what’s best when I don’t know.

And when you’re lost I want to find you.

And when you’re weary I want to give you steeples and cathedral thoughts and coliseum dreams.

I want to drag you from the darkness and kneel with you exhausted with the blinding light blaring on us… and…”

<Chelsea Walls film.>

So, I’ve made peace with the falling leaves.
I see their same fate in my own body.
But I won’t be frightened when I am awoken from this dream.
And returned to that which gave birth to me.
<Bright Eyes/Method Acting song.>

Look, for me it’s very simple, I’m getting to work with a master filmmaker and I am inspired by working with him. And more so than all that, he kind of has this infectious appreciation for cinema as an art form … and when you’re around someone that loves movies that much and has such a commitment to making good movies, you get on that rollercoaster too, and everyone enjoys that process — it’s infectious.  <Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio on director Martin Scorsese.>

There I would often lie, as the sun went down, and watch the silent growth of another sea, which the stormy ocean of the wind could not disturb - the sea of the darkness. First it would begin to gather in the bottom of hollow places. Deep valleys, and all little pits on the hillsides, were wellsprings where it gathered, and whence it seemed to overflow, till it had buried the earth beneath its mass, and, rising high into the heavens, swept over the faces of the stars, washed the blinding day from them, and let them shine, down through the waters of the dark, to the eyes of men below. <George MacDonald/ The Portent book.>

We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms.
But it is much harder for us
To fall away from our own
Attachment to the world.

<Mountain Falling Flowers/Rengetsu, a Buddhist nun.>

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.  <Roald Dahl.>

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody`s taken care of. I know I can`t sustain that level all the time, so I`m finding the proper balance and it`s made me infinitely happier.  <Sarah Jessica Parker.>

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. <Audrey Kathleen Ruston.>