September 2010
8 posts
“The point of the song is we are very well damaged by the legacy of the romantic...”
– John “Will You Be My Valentine?” Darnielle (on the song Love Love Love)
“Emotions aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy” or...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via srsly) (via superfriend) (via helloichigo)
I’ll probably always reblog this.
Joyas Voladoras
Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas,...
