Pantomime

I don't really know what I'm doing
Just watching myself in some play
And the actress looks like she wants to go home
And lie in bed all day
Yeah lie in a big bed all day 

- Patty Griffin, watching my back since 2002

Your tools don't work here

"How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" 

- Meno, via Unknown, via Rebecca Solnit

Calm

"There was no calm, and all that existed was movement, which is the mask of many things, calm among them."

- from 2666, by Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer

Past it

The victim, by continuing to suffer, irritates the oppressor, who would rather be already past it.

            TEJU COLE

Learn

You've got to learn to leave the table 
When love's no longer being served