plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change

"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word."
– Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)

(low-quality preview of a portrait I had been working on and hope to continue in some abstract, unknown part of the future.)

Posted 1 day ago with 2 notes

laughterofjude:

Zach Wahls, a 19-year-old University of Iowa student spoke about the strength of his family during a public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wahls has two mothers, and came to oppose House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil unions in Iowa.

Posted 2 days ago with 4 notes via laughterofjude

Belief isn’t always easy.
But this much I have learned —
if not enough else —
to live with my eyes open.

I know what everyone wants
is a miracle.
This wasn’t a miracle.
Unless, of course, kindness —

as now and again
some rare person has suggested —
is a miracle.
As surely it is.

"
– Mary Oliver, from “In the Storm” (with thanks to Love Is A Place)

(Source: growing-orbits)

lltheportmanteau:

Something I realized that made me love Mike even more is the fact that this scene happens in Mike’s head. He romanticizes his girlfriend and the way she reacts to him, which shows us more about who Mike is himself, and how in love he is with her than it does about Tina herself.

When Tina is at the lockers she is supporting him, but it’s tangible. It’s real, because it’s from our perspective. She even reacts with a “You got an Asian F?!” which is in contrast with the softness and romanticism that Mike sees Tina in.

It’s actually his perception of Tina’s belief and love in him that gave him the strength to go to the audition after all.

Mike is an utter romantic, and he loves Tina so much that her perception of him drives and motivates him beyond his own motivation. Just look at the love etched into his face as he imagines hugging Tina in the last frame, feeling understood and accepted, supported and loved.

Posted 3 days ago with 7,323 notes via emsigtimes

"Faces appear, are washed away,
Dear today and tomorrow far off.
Why did I once turn down
the corner of this page?

Now the book always opens
To the same place. And then it’s strange:
It’s as if from the moment of farewell,
The years have not passed beyond recall."
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Imitation of I. F. Annensky” (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)

(Source: growing-orbits)

"Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters."
– John Green (via anditslove)

Posted 6 days ago with 617 notes via bbcsherlockgifs

"You see but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via my-arcane-words)

Sparks by Coldplay

(Source: yurepic)
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I can’t rest, I can’t fight
all I need is you, & I
without you, without you…

(Source: rfswanson)

Posted 1 week ago with 3,203 notes via gifttothecity

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
– Shirley Maclaine (via julie911)

"We are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be."
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via darkcanuck)

Anonymous said:
oohhh sunshine o'donnell is my teacher

Ahh wow, really? She must be incredible; I’ve only read and analyzed her creative nonfiction piece “Consumption”, but her writing is brilliant, I remember being particularly overwhelmed by it. (I highly recommend it to my followers as well.) One of the very few aspects of college I’m deeply excited for are my future English classes and professors…