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is there anything sexier than saying “check mate”?

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I can be as deep as the sea and as shallow as a river. I can be the faces you like or a thousand others.”

— alvirakhan (via wnq-writers)

by Sarah Bahbah

“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour / Hold Still

“She was mystically delicate,…”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; “Mrs Dalloway,” (via woolfdaily)

“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.”

— The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

La collectionneuse, 1967

Don Juan DeMarco (1994), directed by Jeremy Leven

What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Don Juan, Lord Byron

Some Other Ones // 2015

Brigitte Bardot’s last film before she retired: DON JUAN, OR IF DON JUAN WERE A WOMAN (1973).

1970s interiors: the movie. Man, one after the other. Hip interiors from that period often look like cheap sci-fi sets—or actually, better yet, like those LPs with schmaltzy symphonic versions of romantic songs. Remember those? Fireplace, a rug, a young couple, wine glasses...

And then sex.

Brigitte Bardot & Jane Birkin in Don Juan, 1973

liv tyler / 1997

“I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don’t know what grey is. I never did.”

— (via childofstar)