[It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.]
To think, this year I will grow
into a body you never will
have touched.
I hug her one more time and pull her down to the bed. And in my mind, I rise up from the bed and look down on us, and look down at everybody else in this hospital who might have the good fortune of holding a pretty girl right now, and then at the entire Brooklyn block, and then the neighborhood, and then Brooklyn, and then New York City, and then the whole Tri-State Area, and then this little corner of America- with laser eyes I can see into every house- and then the whole country and the hemisphere and now the whole stupid world, everyone in every bed, couch, futon, chair, hammock, love seat, and tent, everyone kissing or touching eachother… and i know that i’m the happiest of all of them.
—Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (via venebelle)
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Lighthearted Luminaire of the Day: Balloon-shaped light fixtures from estiluz.
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The words “I love you” become nothing but noise. But that’s why we kiss. To say with our lips what we couldn’t before.
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
—Howard Zinn (via atomos)
‘I’ve seen more guts in eleven year old kids.’
Brand New - Seventy Times 7
Quick little ink and watercolour, making a small batch of hand drawn prints to buy soon!
