"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

- Coco Chanel (via nelafromafrica)
Source: nelafromafrica

"A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion."

- Coco Chanel (via afiliar)
Source: afiliar

Text

lesinisterkidd:

I dreamt of the
world in fragments
shattered in my cranium upon
Impact—
These thoughts of what
Happiness could
Become and
How it could sit,
Fester like a tempered
Addict without a fix
To soothe their body;
All the while I’m doing nothing
To find a
Cure.

Source: lesinisterkidd

The Poet in Black: The Scarecrow

sladkisonworks:

The scenery is always the same
A graveyard of sorts
With endless rows, like apparitions
Just pillars that quake in the wind
Trembling under my scarecrow gaze
Because I will always remain.

I am the only monolith here
A haunting figure
This is my world, my time-lost kingdom
Enter only with…

Source: sladkisonworks

Text

theawkwardvelociraptor:

I miss him like the stars
when clouds cover the sky,
or like a small mourning bird
once away it does fly.
I miss him like the whispering wind,
but you’ll never see me cry
because life can be a fickle thing
and we all live to die.

Source: theawkwardvelociraptor

blacksnark: Fried Chicken and Gummy Bears

blacksnark:

A kind-eyed boy and I
once spent our lonely on each other.

We shared a month of respite
in darkened movies, his arm draped lazily
across the back of my seat,
late night taxicabs to
chase dawn in each others’ beds
where we lay, clothed, trading wounds
heartaches, holding each other
the…

Source: blacksnark

"If one is to believe in peaceful coexistence, the first messengers of that peace will be children’s books."

- Jella Lepman (via bookshelvesofdoom)
Source: bookshelvesofdoom

"There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies."

- Jeanette Winterson (via devilduck)
Source: devilduck

"Without literature, life is hell."

- Charles Bukowski (via beyondstyx)
Source: beyondstyx

"Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization."

- Ray Bradbury (via ohthestuffoflegends)
Source: ohthestuffoflegends