October 2009
8 posts
15 different types of love
nothingbuttime:
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Infatuation: loving feelings towards a love object that are largely based upon fantasy and idealization (instead of experience). Often when partners get to know each other, infatuation diminishes. Romantic Love: An abiding love for a partner with whom you feel passion,...
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via smileawhileforme) (via gatekeeper) (via quote-book) (via bon-bon) (via unicornology)
“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I...”
– Mary Oliver | (excerpt of) “Dogfish” | poetry archive | plagiarist.com (via morbidromantic) (via bon-bon) (via unicornology)
“Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that...”
– Tim Kreider, Averted Vision (via kindacarsick, psychotherapy, bubububble, tarts)
As “pretty” as this is, it’s wrong. I’m always happy in the moment. The people I know are happy in the moment. Happy is both in the moment, before the moment and for some time after the moment.
(via secondgradefresh)
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September 2009
11 posts
“There is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent...”
– The Postal Service - Clark Gable
“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck,...”
– Life is Funny
“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold...”
– Jennifer Donnelly - A Northern Light
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in...”
– ~ Lemony Snicket (via worldofpossibility) (via quote-book) (via gatekeeper)
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As...”
– ~ Inkspell - Cornelia Funke (via nowherewarm) (via gatekeeper)
“There’s a certain kind of pain that can numb you. There’s a type of freedom that...”
– ~ Charlie Brown (via gatekeeper)