irreversible

My darling girl, this is the real world. The only way to get a man like Mr Darcy is to make him up.

- Miss Austen Regrets, 2008

#472 karaage (japanese fried chicken)

i love reading recipes and learning how my favourite foods are made. it makes the concept of cooking seem a little bit less daunting. did you know that karaage is marinated in ginger and garlic? i wish my tongue had mentioned that…

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ive been contemplating getting tumblr because passing on quotes and photos somehow seems a gazillion times more meaningful than little me forcing words out of my mouth.

how i wish words could flow naturally out of me. is it because i grew up stubborn and secretive? if i could count the number of things i have been berated for, im sure that must top the chart. i learnt not to explain myself to people simply because it misleads them into believing they are entitled to know everything i do. all these useless excuses. any thinking person with an ounce of logic could tell you that maybe i just wasnt born to be a storyteller.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.

- The Body, Stephen King