"Each time you happen to me all over again."
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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My favorites are the three at the top. And the obituary-obsessed kid. Yours?

My favorites are the three at the top. And the obituary-obsessed kid. Yours?

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debbieliuhoo: harryh: mattlehrer: werdsmiffery: The 20 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World Foursquare list waiting to happen. https://foursquare.com/harryh/list/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world :) Bookstores have been and always will be my hideaway. I browse slowly in them when I’m content, I hide in them when I’m upset, I wander in them when I want to lose myself. True story, I blacked out and ran away crying from my friends one night in DC…straight to Kramerbooks where I hid in bookshelves until someone convinced me to come home. If I had wings, or if i was Ironman, I’d fly to one of these a weekend and spend 48 hours exploring each one. If only I could get married in a bookstore and give each guest a book suited entirely to his (or her) taste and ask them to just read. For at least a day. Well, if I was Ironman, I could just build my own beautiful bookstore and get married in it, but I’d also be a man. I want to visit all of these so badly. And wow, you are pretty much my soulmate, Debbie. Two reasons. 1) While interning at Conde Nast the summer after my senior year, my friends would go out in Murray Hill and inevitably head south towards Meatpacking. Usually I’d go along, but a few times, I decided instead to browse tipsily through the $1 racks at the Strand, one of my favorite places on earth. Once, I ended up lugging 15 books (including a first-edition Gourmet cookbook weighing 6 pounds) all the way back to my place in Gramercy. 2) I used to tell my high school friends that I wanted to get married in the Barnes & Noble nearby, because there are two huge escalators that look over aisles and aisles of books. I would ride up the escalator (to the kids’ section) and there my groom would be, waiting for me amongst all of the romance novels. That’s why I loved Carrie’s pick for wedding venue in the SATC movie, so so much. Big and I would be married in the classic New York landmark... ...that housed all the great love stories.

debbieliuhoo:

harryh:

mattlehrer:

werdsmiffery:

The 20 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World

Foursquare list waiting to happen.

https://foursquare.com/harryh/list/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world

:)

Bookstores have been and always will be my hideaway. I browse slowly in them when I’m content, I hide in them when I’m upset, I wander in them when I want to lose myself. True story, I blacked out and ran away crying from my friends one night in DC…straight to Kramerbooks where I hid in bookshelves until someone convinced me to come home.

If I had wings, or if i was Ironman, I’d fly to one of these a weekend and spend 48 hours exploring each one. If only I could get married in a bookstore and give each guest a book suited entirely to his (or her) taste and ask them to just read. For at least a day.

Well, if I was Ironman, I could just build my own beautiful bookstore and get married in it, but I’d also be a man.

I want to visit all of these so badly.

And wow, you are pretty much my soulmate, Debbie. Two reasons.

1) While interning at Conde Nast the summer after my senior year, my friends would go out in Murray Hill and inevitably head south towards Meatpacking. Usually I’d go along, but a few times, I decided instead to browse tipsily through the $1 racks at the Strand, one of my favorite places on earth. Once, I ended up lugging 15 books (including a first-edition Gourmet cookbook weighing 6 pounds) all the way back to my place in Gramercy.

2) I used to tell my high school friends that I wanted to get married in the Barnes & Noble nearby, because there are two huge escalators that look over aisles and aisles of books. I would ride up the escalator (to the kids’ section) and there my groom would be, waiting for me amongst all of the romance novels. That’s why I loved Carrie’s pick for wedding venue in the SATC movie, so so much.

Big and I would be married
in the classic New York landmark...

  
...that housed all the great love stories.
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Gotye f/ Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
I told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember

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"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy, and keep choosing it every day."
— Henri Nouwen
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Los Angeles is one of the most bizarre places on Earth, and it has an equally singular smell. The clear, alluring track of its scent is arresting. There’s the ocean breeze from Santa Monica that can travel as far East as Silver Lake; a dry desert air that comes West over Downtown and South Central; the astringent balm of eucalyptus, pine, honeysuckle, and jasmine from the hills; and car exhaust from catalytic converters, which is, in its strange industrial way, beautiful. It’s like the jolt of a drug: shifting, comforting, cool like a blanket. The lonely smell of the marine layer burns off and you get this flashy perfume of hot asphalt, engines, and sun block that you can find nowhere but in L.A.

- GQ’s ‘Smelliest Cities on the Planet’

“nowhere but LA” … homesickness abounds

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lylaandblu: Theodore Roosevelt

lylaandblu:

Theodore Roosevelt

(via booklover)

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I’m going, I’m gone.

I’m going, I’m gone.

(Source: anditslove, via roflmaokbai)

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“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.”

— The Inheritance of Loss

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by Proximity BBDO Paris

… nom nom nom

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