Tales of an Ugly Duckling
Esme. Seventeen. Part Dutch. Part American. All Ravenclaw. Brown University class of Twenty-Fifteen. HawthornWombat184.

Let me do the cliche thing and list some of the things i love.

Snow - Sunrise - Ballet - Blue eyeliner - Doctor Who - The O.C. - Shoes - Mean Girls - Harry Potter - Dusty Rose - The Netherlands - Cavalier King Charles Spaniels - Reading - H&M - Project Runway - Craig Ferguson - AVPM - Friends - American Beauty - Supernatural - David Tennant - Sherlock - Bright Eyes - Alice in Wonderland - Regina Spektor - Moulin Rouge! - How I Met Your Mother - Bones - Food - The West Wing - Nerds - Chocolate - Cupcakes - Gilmore Girls - Insomniacs - 30 Rock - Skins - Greek Myths - Historical References - Nicholas Hoult - Anything Victorian - The Tao of Pooh - Ben Folds - Audrey Hepburn - Marlon Brando - Billie Piper - Jane Austen - Green Day - Jeopardy - Preppy Boys - Bukowski - Misfits - The Shoebox Project
HOME ASK ME HERE SUBMIT ARCHIVE THEME BY CURLYTWEETS
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. The big risk here, of course, is rejection. We can all handle being disliked now and then, because there’s such an infinitely big pool of potential likers. But to expose your whole self, not just the likable surface, and to have it rejected, can be catastrophically painful. The prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what makes it so tempting to avoid love and stay safely in the world of liking.
— Jonathan Franzen, Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts (via dishabillic)

(via yummango)


posted on 8/2/2012 with 150 notes

#terrified #i feel so significantly vulnerable right now
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