February 2012
161 posts
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”
– Lewis Hine (via life)
“Now that we have tasted the hope, this hard-earned crust,
We would sooner die...”
– Khaled Mattawa
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“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to...”
– Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg (via thatkindofwoman)
Six types of Love
Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs...
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grow stronger and stronger
“Your value is secure. Even when your heart is breaking, even when you are hurt...”
– Kimberly
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I...”
– Lisa Kleypas (via modernhepburn)
“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth...”
– Ecclesiastes 1:16 - 1:18 (via a-higher-level)
In all seriousness, this is the first and only tattoo I’ve ever considered getting.
(via shoesandsealingwax)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via musingsinfemininity)
"The intimate act of tying a tie, on a man who is...
When I worked at the haberdashery, the most awkward moments of my day were when I was helping gentleman put on their ties or showing them how to tie a bow tie (to this day, I’m better at tying knots on others than I am on myself). The most vital thing was to not make eye contact and to pretend that the mere inches between our faces were actually yards. I tended to hold my breath entirely.
“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via honeyforthehomeless)
Sometimes it takes an awfully long time to wait...
