Ned Hayes's Blog, page 121
February 14, 2014
"There is a profound difference between genuinely loving someone and loving certain specific..."
- Jonathan Carroll (via thatkindofwoman)
smolderhaldereyes:
"If you find a girl who reads, keep her...
"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads."
"'You’ll get over it…' It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter..."
- Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via quoted-books)
February 13, 2014
“Fog lifts in the valley, rising as mist through the bare limbed...
“Fog lifts in the valley, rising as mist through the bare limbed trees. Far below, the deeping combe with our village in the heart of it. My whole world for nearly a decade has been contained in that place – and now the village of Duns is so small. I hold up my hand, form a circle with my fingers. Now the distant village seems a child’s plaything that I can hold in my own hand, wreathed in mist.”
PHOTO: Morning Hang Over by jon_beard on Flickr.
