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inside of me there are lighted candles, live fires, shadows, spaces, open doors, shelters and air currents. Inside of me there is color and warmth.

Anaïs Nin, Children of the Albatross

“I collect memories like I do flower petals. Pressed firmly between the pages of books, tucked away for when I wish to descend back into that warm world that was at one time the present - A world which is coated with the sweet scent of old roses, faded ink, and the sweetest nostalgia.”

- It all still exists through memory.

Heart-shaped pendants grew in popularity during the sixteenth century, and Anne Boleyn was given various pieces shaped like hearts, including 'two diamonds on two hearts, for her head’, in February 1531. That same year, she also received twenty-one diamonds 'set upon rose hearts' to wear in her hair. Several of her jewels have a romantic theme to them, and they were varied and highly ornamented. If these jewels took her personal preferences into account, then she seems to have been particularly fond of diamonds, which appear frequently.

Nicola Tallis, All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548: Power, Majesty and Display

[She] looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl.

Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.

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