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Mnemosyne In Dust

Ask   For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

"Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be."
Edna O’Brien, Country Girls
— 1 month ago with 6 notes
#Country Girls  #Edna O'Brien  #books  #quote  #love  #romance 
"To be loved to madness——such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover."
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
— 2 months ago with 7 notes
#The Return of the Native  #Thomas Hardy  #literature  #books  #Eustacia Vye  #love  #lover  #passion  #loneliness 
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
— 2 months ago with 44 notes
#love  #romance  #quote  #Nicole Krauss  #laughter 
"He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams."
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
— 3 months ago with 2 notes
#virginia woolf  #to the lighthouse  #literature  #quote  #writer  #smile  #love  #romance  #memory  #dreams 
"I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
— 4 months ago with 4 notes
#Daphne du Maurier  #literature  #romance  #love  #pearls  #fashion  #elegance  #sophistication  #satin  #youth  #books  #Rebecca  #style 
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep (1946)

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep (1946)

— 4 months ago with 20 notes
#Humphrey Bogart  #film  #hollywood  #love  #romance  #Lauren Bacall  #The Big Sleep  #1946  #marriage 
"We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing."
Eavan Boland, Domestic Violence: Poems
— 4 months ago with 33 notes
#Eavan Boland  #poet  #poetry  #poem  #fog  #weather  #love  #ideas  #language  #literature  #Irish  #female  #beauty  #nature 
"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate."
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
— 4 months ago with 11 notes
#Gone with the Wind  #Margaret Mitchell  #vanity  #books  #hate  #love  #sixteen  #teen  #teenager 
"It is love that I am seeking for,
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world."
William Butler Yeats
— 5 months ago with 5 notes
#love  #world  #magic  #william butler yeats  #poet  #poem  #poetry  #romance  #beautiful