June 2009
19 posts
estella & pip
Am I pretty?
Yes, I think you are very pretty.
Am I insulting?
Not so much so as you were last time, said I.
Not so much so?
No.
She fired when she asked the last question, and she slapped my face with such force as she had, when I answered it.
Now? said she. You little coarse monster, what do you think of me now?
I shall not tell you.
Because you are going to tell upstairs. Is that it?
No, said I, that's not it.
Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
Because I'll never cry for you again, said I. Which was, I suppose, as false a declaration as ever was made; for I was inwardly crying for her then, and I know what I know of the pain she cost me afterwards.
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Does your love hurt as much as mine?
In Caprica’s jail cell:
Gaius’s Attorney: I loved a woman. Beautiful, beautiful woman. … We had ten years. Then it fell apart under its own weight.
Caprica: Is that what you wanted?
Gaius’s Attorney: I thought that if I could get over her, I could get over anything. I could endure, conquer, be a man. Stand up to any and all kind of punishment. I clung to an...
“He was always in his room writing those things, & never with people. I used...”
– Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. (via oneshouldreadeverything, pretty-bird)
1,001 Things I Want In A Lover : #457 →
Someone who encourages me to go for my dreams even if that means being apart for awhile.
“I have to live with my actions long after the fact. So the choices that...”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via jonnytran)
The History of Love
“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.” “Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone’s hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted—wanting to...
“He was intoxicated in head and heart, and his steps followed the instructions of...”
– Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that...”
– John & Stasi Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul
“There are three desires I find written so deeply into my heart I know now I can...”
– John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul
i read maps real good
detour:
a relationship is not the shortest distance between two points. it is a winding road that charts off course, stuttering in between rocks and slow sinking sand, the gasping breath of an uphill climb - but when her hand touches the bare skin of his back - it meanders along white clouds masquerading as sheep - the tips of her fingers tracing - it smooths and glistens, running as fast as...
We Long for Romance
A woman becomes beautiful when she knows she’s loved. We’ve seen this many times—you probably have too. Cut off from love, rejected, no one pursuing her, something in a woman wilts like a flower no one wants anymore. She withers into resignation, duty, and shame. The radiance of her countenance goes out, as if a light has been turned off. But this same woman, who everyone...
“We are stronger together.”
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all...”
– Corinthians 13:7-8