When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
(Source: truinn-ou)
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
― Publius Syrus
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer—both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
Anonymous: I must ask something only you can answer. Is the girl in the icon picture you?
Yes, I am Marion Cotillard.
I can’t stand people who only acknowledge your existence when they require your assistance
Me and my depressing music against the world
I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself- as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to define myself. For your sake, I’d like to become a new person. It may not be easy, but if I give it my best shot, perhaps I can manage to change. The truth is, though, if put in the same situation again, I might very well do the same thing all over. I might very well hurt you all over again. I can’t promise anything. That’s what I meant when I said I had no right. I just don’t have the confidence to win over that force in me.
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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So I got crap from people telling me that I should keep my personal posts personal and that my personal posts detracted from my blog’s aesthetic. Somehow it made me want to post more personal stuff to kill my blog’s style, you know? I don’t usually post my pictures but what the hell.
Let me introduce myself.
My name is Tamara. I’m currently in Indonesia but I’ll be moving to Australia either next month or December (I’m still confused whether I should accept or defer my college offer because of a few reasons.) I started this blog in August 2010. I post arts and rants. This is what the person behind this blog looks like. Excuse the night-shot setting, I know it makes my eyes look scary.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5tbfx3GUF1qdrgo9o1_r2_400.jpg)
