This book had its share of traveling as well. Very hard to let go of, haunting. The fantastic overlapping of stories, of time frames, of lives and the feeling that you've finally had it figured out, just to be proven wrong over and over again.
"You can't hide a thing from a blind person. Even lying has a smell. He misses his mother. Lucien opens his eyes and gazes at the redness of the rose. It's the color of blood. Is it that color that gives it that wonderful scent? Does the blood flowing in his mother's veins smell of roses?
Does he really have her eyes? The eyes of someone who leaves? Lucien thinks his mother left them, him and his father, because it's no life, living with a blind man. Because, one day or another, you're bound to want to live with someone who looks at you."
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#puzzlepiece #valerieperrin
Some shadows here and there, shadows everywhere.
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.“
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#puzzlepiece #sylviaplath
Heartbreaking, beautifully written book.
As they say, a page turner, which I wish I could’ve turned shut in one go, but couldn’t. So the book travelled with me to rehearsals, shootings, appointments, cafes and parks, and I read it whenever I had even a couple of minutes. Werner, Frederick and Marie-Laure return to my thoughts even now, days after I finished it.
One of the moments that kept coming back to my mind throughout the read, is from the very beginning of the book, when Marie-Laure asks her father for reassurance about rumors concerning the upcoming war. Daniel LeBlanc tells her that humanity has already gone through a world war, and that no one is so insane to want to go through such things again.
And yet they did.
And yet we do.
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“ You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
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#anthonydoerr #allthelightwecannotsee
Tare mult mi-a plăcut cartea asta, @lavinia.braniste !
De obicei pun aici fragmente citate din carte. De data asta las un link spre un interviu cu autoarea cărții din @matcaliterara , merită și el citit.
https://matcaliterara.ro/lavinia-braniste-imi-plac-mult-oamenii-care-si-termina-frazele/
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#laviniabraniște
Dancing with the Phantom or what happens when all the studios at the Opera house are booked. (Or when @elizatrefas insists on learning and dancing this piece with me - thank you for that, an immense joy, always.)
*I danced this as part of a something I presented many years ago at the opening of the current @cndb.ro space, hoping at that time that it’ll become my dreamworld. Just like Thicke’s lyrics, my wish was only utopia.
“Physical Subtitles” for @perjovschidan ’s exhibition at @22visconti Gallery in Paris, within @unweekendalest festival. Very grateful for the chance to meet some truly inspired artists and share space together, thank you, @brigitte_bbouchard and team for having me, I hope to see you all again someday.
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#puzzlepiece #nomoreheroes #danperjovschi #judithstate
Read this book in a pretty particular time in my life, where all the things happening align (or clash) strongly with the very Planet Mother.
The strongest words I’ve been told many years ago, that really made me think about becoming one someday were “(true) love is about the other”. Other-Mother… Pretty much related to what de Beauvoir says in her Second Sex: “A mother who dreams of attaining through her child a fullness, warmth and value she has not managed to create for herself is headed for the greatest disappointment. The child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without reversion to herself, seeks to go beyond her own experience. This is not masochism: you must suffer for your child. It is not a plea for altruism: always put your child first. It is a way of desiring the happiness of someone other - who happens to be your child - without placing that happiness in the service of your own ego (giving with one hand and taking back with the other). It is a way of being inhabited by the other.“
A pretty big read rising questions and thoughts around what the world expects of mothers, what are the pressures and consequences of such expectations, and a simple yet very powerful thought that mothers, at will, could stop the world.
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#puzzlepiece #jacquelinerose
