[violentwavesofemotion]

“I become mystical and feel an alliance with you which is eternal, not interrupted, or hurt by never meeting. If there is anything I could ever give you, I would give it, but perhaps the only thing to give is to be oneself with people.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Gwen Raverat written c. March 1925 (via woolfdaily)

[oldwinesoul]

“If someone asked me "What are the signs of love?" I would have said without hesitation, it's the familiarity and the removal of cost, and to find yourself not having to lie, and the embarrassment removed between you two, and see yourself acting in your nature without trying to be something else so she likes you, and that you two keep silent and the silence gets delicious, and that one of you two talk and listening gets delicious.”

—Mustafa Mahmoud

[lifeinpoetry]

“who / is invisible enough / to see you?”

— — Paul Celan, from “[Sight threads, sense threads],” Breathturn into Timestead, tr. Pierre Joris

[warmfuzzyphoto]

[cartwheelsyeni]

Keira Knightley as Cecilia Tallis in ‘Atonement’ (2007)

[c0ssette]

Fritz Zuber Buhler,Idylle im Waldinneren,1896 (detail)

[c0ssette]

Vittorio Reggianini (Italian,1858-1938) “A young beauty” detail.

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

She felt so strangely ill at ease. Then again, there wasn't anywhere in this world where she did feel comfortable. She herself must lack something, something everyone else had and didn't even question.

Hit Parade of Tears, Izumi Suzuki, 1986

[wuhgee]

“I want to keep the emptiness away, to realize the Sense of what it’s like to be alive—instead of just existing”

— John Koethe, from “Threnody for Two Voices,” North Point North: New and Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2003)

[311616am]

[icuntservemorecunt]

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Philip Treacy - Fall 1999 RTW

[modedamour]

[urbnite]

[smsomah]

Between Fujairah and Ajman, in a simple dressing room created below the branches of a tree next to a hut, a lady ties her burqa in the light of a kerosene lamp. Scanned from the book The UAE: the formative years, 1965-75 by Ramesh Shukla.

[metaphorformetaphor]

“It was a mistake to keep this single knife in my heart so long, but it is my knife, and my heart, too,”

— Richard Jackson, from “Basic Algebra,” Richard Jackson Greatest Hits: 1980-2004 (Pudding House Publications, 2004)

[meehr]

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.”

— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever (via books-n-quotes)