one long longing.

nicole. london. careful about the things she loves.  

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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

Richard Siken
(via thechocolatebrigade)

“He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off-key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.”

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (via extranuance)

(via cafeballads)

don’t you hate it when

partythighs:

you finish your drink and pee and get in bed and then 5 minutes later you have to pee again?

BECAUSE I AM PISSED.