1654th.

"Intimacy is a way that we risk everything we got to get to know someone else. And in that risk and that knowledge we make ourselves larger." - Junot Diaz


Photo is "Intimacy" - from mrs-pinkeyes.

1653rd.

"Don't ever compliment me by insulting other women. That's not a compliment, it's a competition none of us agreed to." - Anonymous


Photo is "Competing for Existence" - from SevenPhotoDFW.

1652nd.

"Isn't this history, and aren't we a couple of ruins?" - Kenneth Koch


Photo is "Scotland Ruins" - from pingallery.

1651st.

"I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle." - Maria Teresa


Photo is "Internal Struggle" - from PhaseDesigns.

1650th.

"We're learning a lot about this thing called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This war time disease. This combat fatigue diagnosis. And we read something worth sharing. Fact, urban youth are twice as likely to get PTSD than soldiers who are coming home from war. So tell me, what's the difference between homicide in the streets and bloodshed on the battlefields of Iraq? The only difference ... is that a soldier gets to leave the battlefield, while [those] kids go home to it." - Javon Johnson and Terisa Siagatonu


Photo is "PTSD" - from kungfumike.

1649th.

"Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth." - Thomas Moore


Photo is "Memorial Day" - from AnnMarieBone.

1648th.

"When you victim-blame, be aware that in all likelihood, at least one woman you know and love silently decides she cannot trust you." - Steph Guthrie


Photo is "Blame the Victim" - from awkwardreality.