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"Sweeter than wine, softer than a summer's night" “But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.” ig: silvieaguirree

[thornbride]

'His wedding gift, clasped around my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.'

Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber

[malleficarvm]

“Except for your eyes, no blade can control me, no sharpened knife.”

— Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian, 1894-1930), from “Lilichka  ! (Instead of a letter)”, translated from the Russian by Andrey Kneller (via finita–la–commedia)

[aiihi]

[funeral]

Sensed presence experiences

[dailylarina]

Ultraviolence (2014) - Lana Del Rey

[sheatemyfries]

Vogue Taiwan, January 2022

[crankypressman]

via lh4.googleusercontent.com

[mademoisellelapiquante]

Roxane Mesquida as Hermengarde in The Last Mistress (Une vielle maîtresse) - 2007

[feral-ballad]

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein, from Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poems, “Where does this tenderness come from?”

[sigurism]

Alain Delon Plein Soleil | Purple Noon Dir: René Clément

[megairea]

Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour (tr. by Richard Seaver), 1959

[summernightsdream]

Ig: sofiazakia

[dolly-till-i-die]

[distantvoices]

Peng Chang in 'Heat Wave' by Zhong Lin for Vogue Taiwan January 2022

[bombshell-manual]

Elle Fanning in Vivienne Westwood for the The Independent Spirit Awards

[mournfulroses]

Aimé Césaire, from The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire; “The Great Noon,”

[doomed-princess-deactivated2019]

She is locked up in a tower, a palace, a garden, a cave, chained to a rock, captive, put to sleep: she is waiting.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (via lesgardenias)