Holding hands may seem like an innocent gesture, but they show more than a simple interlocking of fingers. Your hands are one of the most essential parts of your body: you build with them, feed with them, hold with them, touch with them, fight with them; they are the tools of the human body. To take a hold of another’s hand is to break from living individually. It is to link yourself to another being, to momentarily entwine your life with another’s, to promise, for a moment, that you need not face the world alone. More simple, more aesthetically naive than other forms of affection, i.e kissing, hugging, sexing.., the act of holding hands is often trivialized in its true implications.
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I’m sending this to the 2012 Olympics
excellent
You beautiful, wonderful human being.
YES
This is a big fat WIN
Want a bigger win? They responded:
This is the most glorious thing I’ve ever seen.
four for you, shannon
You don’t mess with time and space.
You glorious human being.
(via ultimatelycumberbatched)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea (lol at this being credited to the Council of Nicea though. Was “various” not an option?)
Wuthering Heights - Emily BronteNineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip PullmanGreat Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian FaulkCatcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret MitchellThe Great Gatsby - F Scott FitzgeraldBleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo TolstoyThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth GrahameAnna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh - AA MilneAnimal Farm - George OrwellThe Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank HerbertCold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles DickensBrave New World - Aldous HuxleyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman MelvilleOliver Twist - Charles DickensDracula - Bram StokerThe Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson BurnettNotes From A Small Island - Bill BrysonUlysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS ByattA Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David MitchellThe Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch AlbomAdventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph ConradThe Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain BanksWatership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre DumasHamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
(Source: antoinetheswan)