Spanish school, 19th century| A Woman Sitting on the Edge of a Bed (detail)
Asking for directions
Took my dog backpacking last week. She mostly just took naps. (Source: http://ift.tt/2sK7WbX)
“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
— Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years
“I did not know what to do with myself. Outside the rain was falling. I had been tempted, once, while wearing my mother’s red dress, to walk out in the rain. I had never done it before. And the storm came on so quick – the thunder was an aftershock in my ears. I had been blinded – all I could hear was the rain, and how everything rushed down the roads in a feral river.”
— Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years
