things i don't want to know, by deborah levy

(x)

"That spring when life was hard and I was at war with my lot and simply couldn't see where there was to get to, I seemed to cry most on escalators at train stations."

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

"A female writer cannot afford to feel her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly." (x)

She writes of herself and the mothers she knew at the school gate as "shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children. We didn't really know what to do with her, this fierce, independent young woman who followed us about…" (x)

matthias kiss

(x)

"Which is all to say, smoking definitely didn’t love me back. And admittedly, I had liked the contradiction of it, of being a person who worked out six days a week and wouldn’t use beauty products that contained parabens but also willingly ingested—nay, paid for the privilege of ingesting—poison with my matcha in the morning. Like they canceled each other out, like that meant that, despite the solid, wonderful boyfriend, the great job, the friends and the family, and, God help me, even the golden retriever, that signifier of settled-down squareness and all the associated responsibilities therein, that I was still young and stupid and fun, still capable of sussing out the best route to the bar at a packed party, of staying out all night. Cigarettes, to me, were a blazing signifier that I still made bad choices, that I was still interesting."

- Love Stories: My Chemical Romance, by Alessandra Codinha (x)

"Es dauerte mindestens zwei Jahre, bis ich mich hier zu Hause fühlte. Jetzt habe ich allerdings manchmal das Gefühl, dass sich Berlin schon wieder an mir vorbeientwickelt hat. Die Bar 25, das Stattbad Wedding, der Picknick-Club: so viele Orte, mit denen ich Schönes verbinde, gibt es nicht mehr. Das muss eine Stadt erst einmal schaffen – dass du keine 30 bist und schon Nostalgiker."

- Berlin, Berlin, wir ziehen nach Berlin! (x)

blue vs. red

"With typical Li logic, she says she feels that she has become younger as she has grown older. “For about 28 years [her age now], I thought I was 45. And now I’ve started to go backwards. For the first time I’m aware that I’m actually quite young, but it’s almost too late as I’m not even that young anymore. So I feel a bit stressed out that I kind of missed my youth. Now I just want to do everything – I want to live life and make art and make love.”"

- Lykke Li (x)

"I’m 27 now. A lot of people talk about how getting older makes them sadder and that this age is often something intense. (...) It’s a time when you can’t really blame everything on youth anymore."

- Lykke Li (x)

"A city becoming, a woman becoming. The pathetic fallacy runs strong in Berlin, as my Irish friend Louise would say; anyone can borrow this city and its wounds as set design. "

- Berlin, An Anti-Romance (x)

"Best piece of professional advice you’ve ever received?
Don’t complain. There’s a great chapter in Ben Horowitz’s book called The Hard Thing About Hard Things called “Nobody Cares” and he talks about how he was running Netscape and one of his investors looks at him one day and tells him, “Ben, nobody cares—just do your job.” You can make a million excuses for why something didn’t go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person."

- Emily Weiss (x)

"I usually wash my face right when I wake up because I need to let everything soak in which makes this a lengthy process. I get up much earlier than I need to and will sit in my robe and marinate while drinking coffee before I actually make any noticeable progress that an outsider can see."

- Dana Schwartz, Into the Gloss (x)

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are (x)

"...denen draußen der Regen aufs Styling nieselt, die niemand sofort erkannt hat und die sich nun "einen Augenblick gedulden" müssen. Die Tragik der Generation Gästeliste bei drei Grad über null."

- (x)

new year's resolution

Vogue US

"I kind of want to tone it down. I feel like 2016, everybody's on the natural wave. I just want to take my nails off. No hair. No makeup. It's too much to maintain sometimes. It's hard being a girl."

"I feel like every year has a new energy. I feel like this year is really about the year of just realizing stuff and just coming into your own and finding yourself. I feel like al my friends around me and everyone around me are just realizing things. Things are coming to light. We just want to be good people and do good things and have fun and just have no stress."
7 New Year's Resolutions for 2016, by Kylie Jenner (x)

beauté

Nobody does packaging better than beauté right now.

1. Nuori
2. Kosho
3. Aesop
4. Grown Alchemist
5. Verso
6. Glossier
7. Susanne Kaufmann
8. Context
9. Byredo
10. Rodin
11. Lake and Skye
12. Royal Fern

Pictures: Glossier, & Other Stories

love

Love (2015)

"There are no ‘squad goals’ here, just the real deal of family domesticity."
- Issue 67: Editor's Letter, by Jess Blanch (x)

"Every American story begins in innocence and never stops mourning the loss of it."
Joan Didion (x)

"His girls tend to reflect the stages he's going through. (...) His only trouble is that women are people, not stages."
- Roger Ebert reviewing Annie Hall (x)

"It's like all these chemicals that get released in your brain: serotonin, endorphins, dopamine. They link to your brain and help you fall for a person's smell and their energy. You get stoned with the idea of falling in love."
- Gaspar Noé (x)

“It was a difficult transition,” she continued. “Going from one view of sex to the other in a single day.”

"Growing up, I thought often about becoming a nun: that’s how much I wanted God. But no matter how I emptied myself, I couldn’t feel him. He was my first heartbreak, my first unrequited love."
- Postpartum, by Stephanie Grant for The New Yorker (x)

le backhand

 

"The great dramatic problem of our age is how to keep people apart. How to infuse such stories with tension. There are so few credible barriers to togetherness any more. You want to have sex? Have sex. You want to leave your wife/husband/children/job/life? You can, and people do, with nary a thought for the poor dramatist who is suddenly bereft of conflicts, frustration, anticipation, yearning and all the other things we long for in our hearts and our stories. London Spy solves this brilliantly and believably."
- London Spy Review, The Guardian (x)

"Often we're exploited, our sexuality is relied on to promote a film, and I think that probably comes with much more of a cost than we allow ourselves to believe. And I've had it with all of that. Being dignified is better for your soul."
- Sienna Miller in Harper's Bazaar, December 2015

"They have chickens and a dog, and roasts and friends, jams by campfires. It’s sort of idyllic. Marcus can headline Glastonbury and Carey can be nominated for however many Oscars, and then they come back to their farm, and they’re in big woolly jumpers and funny hats, raising piglets. It’s an amazing balance they’ve managed to strike. I can’t wait for a little baby to come along."
- Sienna Miller on Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford (x)

"These are our days. Walk them. Fear nothing."
- Kerry Hardy Humandkind (x)

"Sex mit dem Ex ist ähnlich befriedigend wie sich alte Fotoalben anzuschauen."
Ist das eine Affäre für Feiglinge? (x)

sinnflut

 

"I don’t feel anxious in the morning. I feel timelessness. It’s really sublime——like, breakfast can go on and on and have many courses and a lot of coffee. I always want to get other people involved in this——my friend Claire or my boyfriend. I just want the morning to be like this endless drug experience." - Leopoldine Core's Morning After

"You can try to escape the story of your life, but you can’t. It happened. The baby died; the dog died; the heart broke. I knew you when you were young—I know your heart broke, too. I will know you when we are both old and maybe wise. I hope wise. I know you now, your story. Mine isn’t the one I would’ve chosen in the beginning, but I’ll take it. It is my story. It’s only mine. And it’s not over. There’s time. There is time. There’s so much time. "
- Enlightened, Season 1 (x)

"The Zeigarnik Effect: The effect is that unfinished experiences lend memorability to an experience. Once it feels finished, once it completes, it’s no longer memorable."
- Sarah Manguso (x)

"There's a lot of things I don't think I'll ever get 'round to doing. Not because I'm famous, but just because I just don't think I'll ever have the time. Like being a journalist, or like being a teacher. And I'm never going to be on my own again." She takes a breath. "I'm a mom and I'm in a very serious relationship, so it's never going to be just me again. I don't regret any of it. Like, those aren't the things that I regret. But I feel like I didn't have very long to myself. I was my mom's kid, and now I'm a mom." She laughs. "I had, like, a five-year window of just being me."
Adele (x)

"Und ich glaube, das ist typisch für Wien: Die Leute haben so eine Nach-mir-die-Sintflut-Haltung."
- Vea Kaiser (x)

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