His findings mirror a wealth of sociological and psychological research conducted over the past four decades. “What’s surprising is that everybody finds these findings surprising,” he said. Yet mothers – and fathers – will often go to great lengths to hide the fact, even from themselves, that they find their children difficult. No parent we [...]

On a physical level too, Binoche has acquired gravity. That exceptionally sweet face – which once reminded one of a beautiful, shy deer – has aged naturally and shamelessly. Tiny fans of lines sprout from her eyes when she laughs and her default expression (perhaps because the interviewing process is one she clearly suffers rather [...]

Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain Billie Holiday (via hotparade)

It is music for the exile, for the preparations, the significations of departure, for the symptoms of migration. It is the languishing music of picking through your belongings and deciding what to take. It is the two a.m. music of smelling and caressing books none of which you can carry – books you leave behind [...]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde (via babaloobambam2)

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” Oscar Wilde (via gokcesuner)