January 2012
fuck yeah sex education: Why the friendzone is... →
angels-and-angles:
As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is little you can do without feeling like a dick. All in all, one of the meanest…
“You turn on the radio and fall in love with the shape of someone’s voice box....”
– I Wrote This For You: The Acoustics (via creatingaquietmind)
waldosia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
All too often.
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via feminishblog)
lavender lines: etiquette-etc: THE ANGRY... →
etiquette-etc:
THE ANGRY THERAPIST: What is Your Definition of Love?
theangrytherapist:
First, I believe there are two types of love. Healthy and unhealthy. Unhealthy love is being powerless, selfish, and enabling. It has no boundaries. Unhealthy love is unconditional and yet contingent. It is immature, irresponsible, and dependent. Unhealthy love is urgent. There is a desperation behind it...
“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
December 2011
“It’s good when food tastes good. It’s kind of like proof you’re alive.”
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
(via mylittlebookofwisdom)
“Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and...”
– Understanding and modelling how pedestrians behave is a youngish field for researchers. Anticipating pedestrian flows makes crowd events smoother and safer, and accounting for the peculiar propensities of different nationalities is key to getting it right. (via theeconomist)
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by...”
– Haruki Murakami (via misswallflower)
“ “If you try to be precise you are bound to be metaphorical.” ”
– John Middleton Murry, English writer (1889-1957), cited in Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, cited in G. de Vries, D. Barton Johnson, L. Ashenden, Vladimir Nabokov and the art of painting, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, p. 14. (via amiquote)
