“Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol– […].”
Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
Evelyn Waugh (born on this day in 1903)
We are creatures of the underworld. We can’t afford to love.
Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann
