the divine lady

an enigma wrapped in a mystery

[petitagite]

“You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”

— Junot Díaz (via stoicremains)

[questcequecestqueca]

Christina Ricci - Annie Leibovitz

[venusimleder]

Thierry Mugler, S/S 1998.

[rozieramati]

leopard orchid

[dreamyvixen]

[shisasan]

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi, First published 1273

[shisasan]

May 29, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“She wanted to be courted with mysterious language.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977

[of-spaceandstars]

“I burn for him with starved desire,”

— Jean Racine, from ‘Phaedra’, tr. Richard Wilbur (via derangedrhythms)

[catsmeowjitterbug]

1950′s lucite high heel sandals

[mermaidenmystic]

art nouveau lily pad dish by Ernst Wahliss (Austrian, 1836-1900) 

[driflloon]

coccapani ss04

[velvetcloak]

Bust bodice, 1905. France. Victoria & Albert Museum.

[majestativa]

… made of fire, eyes glowing like coals.

CLARICE LISPECTOR — Clarice Lispector: Mutações Faiscantes / Sparkling Mutations, transl. by Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, (1997)

[pwlanier]

Antique papier-mâché model of an apple blossom, Pirius malus, by Robert Brendel. No. 77 003/33. Circa 1930.

Twents

[smsomah]

Silver wedding earrings from northern India; upon the woman's death, these earrings were often broken apart, and the silver components were distributed among the woman's children; early 20th century

[derangedrhythms]

It was a kind of mutual haunting.

Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose