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lavender-doll:

We held our breaths, we shut our eyes,
We felt our heads spin.
Our souls escaped into the skies,
We heard a frightful din.

In the dark we saw diamonds;
Miss G sallied down the aisle.
She touched us with her hands
And bore us aloft, awhile.

—Cracks, Sheila Kohler

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viα vintagegalJean Simmons as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948)

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"If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you—you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again." 


— C.S. Lewis  (via fleurstains)

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Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers 

Ernest Hemingway: Salt water, rum, coconut and lime, cigar smoke, Spanish wine

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gin, citrus, oak (prep school, amirite), in a champagne-flute shaped bottle with gold flecks in it

Jane Austen: Darjeeling tea, snowdrops and pansies (flowers from her garden), meadow grass

Dorothy Parker: Whiskey sour, vanilla, mandarin, white musk

Edgar Allan Poe: Poppies, absinthe, sandalwood, and mold

Flannery O’Connor: Church incense, soap, vanilla, ginger

Jack Kerouac: Cigarettes, cheap beer, unwashed youth, patchouli, car leather

the Bronte Sisters: Heather, sea air, vetiver, primrose, black tea

Louisa May Alcott: Fir tree, red currant, blood orange, coffee beans

Tolstoy: Vodka, musk, black tea, black peppercorn, cedar

Sylvia Plath: Freshly washed linen, vanilla, daffodils, lavender

Margaret Mitchell: Musk, magnolia, tea, sugar, gardenia blossoms

Dickens: Cloves, tobacco, patchouli, brandy water, river water

Anne Sexton: Vodka martini, tobacco, lemon verbena, peppermint

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"I had got from England a preparation for the children’s hair, and was rubbing it into little Anastasia’s head one evening. She objected, and I said, ‘It will make your hair grow nicely, darling,’ so she submitted. Next evening I went to get the kappuka from the cupboard and mademoiselle ran off in the next room. She returned dragging by its leg an awful dolly, a regular fetish, minus a wig, one eye, and an arm. She gravely took a little piece of sponge and began to rub the kappuka into the creature’s head. I remonstrated; telling her I had to send to England for the stuff and did not want it wasted. She looked at me most reproachfully, and said, ‘My poor Vera! She has got no curls; this will make her hair grow.’ Of course she got her way." 


— Nanny Mrs. Eager (via ohsoromanov)

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autumndewilde:

LULA MAGAZINE #11
WHITE CHALK story with KIRSTEN DUNST
STYLED BY KATE AND LAURA MULLEAVY OF RODARTE
shot in martha’s vineyard

autumndewilde:

LULA MAGAZINE #11

WHITE CHALK story with KIRSTEN DUNST

STYLED BY KATE AND LAURA MULLEAVY OF RODARTE

shot in martha’s vineyard

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"All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence." 


— Sylvia Plath (via lavandula)

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princessofdust:


beauty and the beast for rose-daughter

princessofdust:

beauty and the beast for rose-daughter

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"The dark woods still rustle around me; the rich flowering grass and the bright flowers, which were my cradle, still shed their fragrance about me." 


E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Devil’s Elixirs (1816)

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