What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted...

...a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names -
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache...

-Linda Pastan

Just saw this movie at a free preview, and it was spectacular. An utterly modern love story that was so strikingly true-to-life and natural, it frightened me. It broke my heart - but in a beautiful way, with a very Before Sunset-ish open ending...

"There is a question I have been wanting to understand the answer to, but have been feeling that I simply can’t ask. Eventually I just ask it anyway:

'Do you think there was a part of you that imagined the two of you would somehow end up together?'

Immediately, I wish that I hadn’t. The look on her face - a kind of juddering visceral alarm at what has been said… I don’t wish to see that look many more times in my life. 'That would make me way too sad to answer,” she says quickly, and I hurriedly begin another question, about something completely different, hoping that if I say it fast enough these new words will chase the old words away from where they are hanging in the air between us, and maybe she will let me pretend that it was something I never said.

'No, no,' she says, and I can see the tears forming, and I think she means that she doesn’t want to answer any more questions about anything. I mutter some kind of apology under my breath.

But, even now, I’m wrong about everything. Mostly she is just trying to stop my new question. She has something to tell me.

'No,' she says. 'I said it would make me too sad to answer but it’s also…' - and she nods even as her voice breaks once more with tears - '…one of my favorite things to imagine.' And through the tears, a beaming, almost beatific smile stretches room-wide across her face. 'It’s actually one of my favorite places to visit.'

-Michelle Williams, about Heath Ledger

Really, really want to see this, too...

Love, daisy chains and wedding dresses xxx

PS. New post [on forever blowing bubbles!] is up on Wedding Design Anarchy - I love you more than I can say for all of your kind comments, which the bosses have noticed!!