31_days | [Themes] August

A Summer Love, A Summer Horror
August themes.

1. we came from the same nowhere

2. leaving the spare key I had loaned him next to the uneaten pears

3. at sea on the gray waters just far enough from any shore to know the news of the land

4. some said twilight required a reckoning

5. consider the day before you take on the night.

6. let the day die fast.

7. we lingered on bridges

8. we slept with the windows wide open

9. a kiss, a letting go

10. our romance after long silence

11. I Answered quickly: "I'm safe with you, I know."

12. a cup of stars

13. a wall of oleander all around me

14. I am learning the pathways of the heart

15. a place shaped like the girl you love.

16. A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick

17. "We only remember what never really happened."

18. "I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

19. "We will go no further. Here begins the land of phantoms."

20. Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.

21. In this world / love has no color / yet how deeply / my body is stained by yours.

22. "And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you."

23. "...and we are in bed together, laughing, and we don't care about anything..."

24. But how could you live, and have no story to tell?

25. It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart finally declares itself in song.

26. Sometimes home has a heartbeat.

27. "Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic."

28. "I just miss you, in a quite simple, desperate, human way."

29. "Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories."

30. "Everything will be all right in the end. So if it is not all right, it is not yet the end."

31. Journeys end with lovers meeting.

1-11 come from from Light At Dusk by Peter Gadol
12-14 and 31 come from The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

15 comes from Valencia by Michelle Tea

16 comes from Love by Toni Morrison.
17 comes from Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
18 Ramond Chandler
19 comes from Nosferatu
20-21 Izumi Shikabu
22 is Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
23 is Charles Bukowski
24 fyodor dostoevsky
25 William Simms
26. Beau Taplin || home
27 Frieda Kahlo
28. Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf
29. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
30. Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human