February 2012
93 posts
matte finish
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. an expression found in photos of people who have since died—bittersweet, vulnerable, faintly distracted—an illusion that occurs when a one-off snapshot suddenly becomes a glimpse of someone as vivid and alive as they’ll ever be, like the flash of color that sometimes appears just after the sun sets.
“I want to bend in a thousand directions, like the sun does, like love does, like...”
– Andrea Gibson (via floralnymph)
anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for all things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine...”
– Charles Bukowski (via ratak-monodosico)
“Know —
Your hand is a star.
Your blood is famous in your heart.”
– Carol Ann Duffy, from “Gesture” (via growing-orbits)
“I can still smell you
softly inside my collar.
You are with me now.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Face
tylerknott:
I just think you should know, that out of all, in all the world, you have my most favorite face. -Tyler Knott Gregson-