♔A Queen of Infinite Space♔

I am a queen of infinite space, and so are you. In love with figure skating, founding societies, scallops, Marylebone, my grandmother, Jane Austen, Mozart, Sound of Music, Blair Waldorf, Naomi Clark, Fitzgerald, Anne of Green Gables, Lady Hale, Morisot, Taylor’s port, unwritten constitutions, mulled wine,

[incarnatia]

“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”

— Alice Koller  (via tita-44)

[songoflove]

She Could Have Been a Cowboy, Anja Niemi

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[breathtakingdestinations]

[gatabella]

Marlene Dietrich, Paris, 1937

[lifeinpoetry]

“This room confirms grief as much as the uselessness of porn: / I want so many people all at once & no one at all.”

— Iliana Rocha, from “Orgy,” Karankawa

[sashastergiou]

“The precious intimacy of little things.”

— Daphne du Maurier, from “I Will Never Be Young Again,” published c. 1932 (via mrsclarkkent)

[themakeupbrush]

Dolce & Gabbana S/S 2019

[mooneyedandglowing]

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

— Leo Rosten (via quotemadness)

[her-vintage-world]

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“It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.”

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[gypsyastronaut]

[underparisianskies]

S.

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its really comforting to know that all the times i was at my lowest and loneliest in the past the whole time i had my self in the future and present who had survived those things looking back with love and tenderness and wishing desperately to offer comfort…i am my own guardian angel and i can use that knowledge when im struggling now and remember that somewhere there is a version of me that has survived this and is watching me with love and pride and joy in her heart

[midnight-summerx]

Jean-François Jalabert, Galatée (detail) 19th century

[bollymusings]

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when vincent van gogh said “but you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more”

[aslowyear]

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.”

— Peggy Toney Horton