Nicole

[theorphicallure-deactivated2025]

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.

Closer (2004)

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[indigomood]

Closer (2004) dir. Mike Nichols

[midnightmurdershow]

Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 05 “Grasslands” Directed by Chadden Hunter

[bongjoonhoe]

Pierrot le Fou (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

[kunznicole]

[kunznicole]

[thingsworthsaving]

"Love or any deep connection with another person, however brief, does more than just satisfy us in the present. It ripples back in time, repairing, restoring, and renovating an inadequate past."

-David Richo, from How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

[thingsworthsaving]

“I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”

—John Muir

[thingsworthsaving]

“Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as, The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful.”

-Viktor E. Frankl

[thingsworthsaving]

“The earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”

James Baldwin

[thingsworthsaving]

"Let's face it, we're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something."

-Judith Butler

[thingsworthsaving]

"Love or any deep connection with another person, however brief, does more than just satisfy us in the present. It ripples back in time, repairing, restoring, and renovating an inadequate past."

-David Richo, from How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

[thingsworthsaving]

"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov

[thingsworthsaving]

"A cognitive recounting of the past may only be a memory of a memory unless it is connected strongly to a bodily feeling, because every cell in our body recalls every event that impinged upon us in childhood. The body, more than the mind, is the real human unconscious, storing both the memory of pain and our attempts to avoid it. The work, then, is to find the accurate sense of what we felt and not necessarily a story line of exactly what happened."

-David Richo, from How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

[thingsworthsaving]

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

[kunznicole]

[requiem-on-water]

(1) Thom Browne (f/w 2024), (2) Schiaparelli (f/w 2022), (3) Roberto Cavalli (f/w 2000), (4) Schiaparelli (f/w 2021), (5) Iris van Herpen (f/w 2011), (6) Olivier Theyskens (f/w 1998)