December 2008
12 posts
“When she worked on a canvas in her top-floor room, she had a habit, when...”
– the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
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You are the best present anyone could ask for. Your love is a better gift than anything store-bought, anything handmade, anything wrapped up in paper with bows and ribbons and gift tags. Your love transcends all seasons, fills me with unending and immeasurable happiness the whole year through. You give me chills in the lazy August heat; you fill me with warmth on the coldest December nights. You...
“I felt you in my legs before I ever met you
And when I laid beside you for the...”
– tegan and sara, “nineteen”
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All I want for christmas is you.
“i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles...”
– ee cummings (via slowdancing)
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I was thinking about past loves last night. We are so impressionable when we are young. Our first loves shape us, define love for us. They are passionate and fierce and painful and mad. They tear us apart, break our hearts. Sometimes they make us afraid to love again. We learn from these periods of insanity, learn to guard our hearts more carefully, keep our cards closer to our chests; later...
“When I see you, the world stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and...”
– james frey (via apologies)
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There is nothing I want more right now than for you to hold me and warm me up. I want to curl up with you in a bed piled high with blankets and pillows, in a room lined with christmas lights. I want to sip hot tea and chocolate soymilk and nibble on cookies and burrow into your chest. “Why do you always hide your face in my chest?” “Because it makes me feel safe.” I want to be there with you when...
“Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for....”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via apologies)
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I painted my nails today, dark red (the colour of love). It’s the sort of detail you always miss. Sometimes I prepare myself for you - long showers, smooth skin, lotions and perfumes and polishes and makeup and little lacy things - but you rarely notice. I know it isn’t because you don’t love me, but. Sometimes it hurts anyway. Sometimes I want you to appreciate the effort I put into making myself...
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I miss you in parts. It makes it easier. It’s easier to miss the soft skin of your stomach, the freckle on the outside of your right nostril, your long, dark eyelashes, the space between your jaw and throat than it is to miss you as a whole. I miss one part in particular each day. Day 1, it was the feeling of your arm draped over the small of my back as we fall asleep. Day 2 was your stomach. Day...