anna

oranges (and clementines and tangerines) as vessels of love   

BAAP duniya ki woh behtareen hasti hai, jiski dastarkhwaan par maujudgi aur kamrey ke bahar utarey hue jootey bhi tahaffuz ka ehsaas dilatey hain

-Unknown

and remembering them is the same: nhó. Some-

times, when you ask me over the phone, Con

nho me khönq? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do

you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”

~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

& how it's “yaad” in urdu. the only difference is the change of verb and sentence formation and that's how we know if the person is talking about missing someone or remembering them; "mujhy tumhari yaad aa rahi hai” (transliteration: your memory/remembrance is coming to me) but even now the sentence is still talking about remembrance. there is no literal translation for "I miss you" because we don't have the word for "missing" someone, all we ever do is remember them; they are never 'missing', they are with us through that remembrance.

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blue paintings + solitude

Patrick von Kalckreuth (Kiel 1898-1970 Starnberg)

Must I love a man who doesn't love me

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

Manna Francis, First Against the Wall

Love is knowing that your feet carry you to a painful place, and still go anyway.

Mitta Xinindlu

Violet Trefusis

Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don’t want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

Richard Siken, Crush

Albert Camus

Why love what you will lose?

There is nothing else to love.