the room is empty

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all, when before it at least had something, if not him.
-Ally Condie, Crossed

Photo of Matty in 2003.

dreamers

& also

Part of me is made of glass, & also, I love you.
-Nicole Krauss

gold

new year

each night brings the stars & the song in my heart is a tune for the journeyman's tale. 
- Johnny Flynn, The Water

your own light

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? 
-Ray Bradbury

art of animals

All things beautiful.
via Anthropologie

holiday

chances

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck. 
- Lemony Snicket

in waters so blue

via Life on Sundays

little blades

via Going Once

i will never love you more

 An old & great film for Kate Spade.

otherwise

the room he brings into you

the room befalls you

like the fir trees he trues her

she nears him like the firs

if one vanishes one stays

if one stays the other will or will not vanish

otherwise my beautiful green fly

otherwise not a leaf stirs

- C.D. Wright, from Floating Trees, one of my (many) favorite poems 

love

via Je te veux. N'arrete pas.

cupid & the lion

via Arquebus Clothing

neon surfing

This is SO cool

via Aubrey Road

still

Marcelo Montecino, Bustamante 4, Santiago, 1969

via Moon to Moon

the eyes that see so sharply

Skinlessness…makes a poet. One must have the gift of language, but even a great gift is useless without the other curse: the eyes that see so sharply they often want to close.
-Erica Jong, about Anne Sexton via Mythology of Blue

(image: Stella McCartney)

(old) school map

our own warm breath

Parts of the poem "Tidings" by Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz.

holiday

Can't wait to see my Thanksgiving crew. xo

like crazy

everything

Everything else remained the same.  This is why, you said, there was no fiction.
-Rosemarie Waldrop, Feverish Propositions 

Image: Royal Quiet Deluxe

a year in New York

A Year in New York from Andrew Clancy on Vimeo.

just hug

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. 
-Zooey Deschanel

(both via i just might)