June 2010
19 posts
May 2010
18 posts
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
—Donalbain, Macbeth (Act II, Scene iii)
April 2010
20 posts
“Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.”
—Hazelmarie Elliott
March 2010
34 posts
“I opened one of the albums on the table, and looked at photos of what must have been the tattoo master’s work. One in particular caught my eye. It wasn’t just a tattoo: it was a piece of art using the human body as a canvas, with delicately curving lines representing graceful koi leaping up a foaming waterfall. I’d grown up surrounded by men with tattoos, starting with my father, and I’d never felt there was anything wrong with having one. Ever since I was a kid I’d loved to draw, and I was sure I’d been inspired by the beautiful work of art on my father’s body. But nothing had ever spoken to me like the work of this tattoo master.”
—Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster’s Daughter by Shoko Tendo
“Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.”
—Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
