"... What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she would fly."
— The Virgin Suicides
A NATURAL PEARL AND DIAMOND NECKLACE, BY M. GÉRARD Of V-shaped design, with two lines of graduated baguette and brilliant-cut diamonds, suspending at the front five drop-shaped natural grey pearls, with diamond trefoil surmount, mounted in gold, 38.0 cm Signed M. Gérard
vivienne westwood ss97 & samuel cirnansck spring 2012
I relied on romantic maladaptive daydreaming for survival as a child, and have been love sick ever since
“Nothing to be written, only the ache to write. I fear my adoration.”
— Mary Butts, from a journal entry featured in “The Journals of Mary Butts,”
"Snow-calm, rose-lovely, violet-sweet..."
— Marya Zaturenska, "Inviolate Infancy"
Joaquín Nin, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940
IM SICK OF IT!!! KNOW WHAT IM SICK OF??? IT!!!
From morbid anatomy book “The Anatomical Venus” - Morbid Anatomy Museum.
“Moons and night, you are a wolf of black velvet,”
— René Char, from Furor and Mystery, & Other Poems; “Lettera Amorosa”
“Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.”
— Christina Rossetti (b. 5 december 1830)
Box, 1730, London, England.
“I am found wanting. // This is a disease I carry home, this is a death.”
— Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women,” Winter Trees
Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940
what i need is a devout knight