Such highs and such lows, this was Ava. Nothing between. Like a queen one moment, a scared child the next. At times so romantic, so sweet, like a girl of seventeen years old. She was very romantic, a strange, romantic creature. The things she did were not those of an ordinary person. - Claude Terrail on Ava Gardner, Love Is Nothing
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I felt like a real storybook girl. Something was going to happen and I was ready for it.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1869)
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MADAME BOVARY (1949)
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ColourPop x Beauty and the Beast Eyeshadow Palette
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The wild lure of the sea must live in the mermaid. Her skin should have something of the phosphorescenct sheen of the ocean, and her hair something of tangled seaweed. The water's thousand colors must glitter in her eyes; the maelstrom must be in her kiss, and the gentleness of foam in her embrace.
Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne (1880)
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Lustre Creme Shampoo "Cue From Cupid" Advertisement, 1950s 🏹🩷
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You made a princess of me.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1869)
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Detail of a beautiful custom watercolor depicting a modern Marie Duplessis, made personally for me by my lovely friend Julie 🩷
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He lets me read his heart, and I am so proud to know it's mine.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1869)
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Gregory Peck met Audrey at an introductory party at the Excelsior Hotel. He took her small hand in his large one, felt shyness in her modest grasp and said, in playful rehearsal for their roles,'Your Royal Highness.' She replied, ‘I hope I don’t let you down.’ [During filming], gossip, unfounded but plausible, suggested Audrey as the cause of [Greg’s] marital break-up. She was hurt and puzzled. Then it was explained to her by an interviewer from Photoplay, a woman wise to the ways in which rumours gathered credibility, that Audrey herself had unwittingly encouraged the story by the very enthusiasm she had shown for working with Peck:
'[He] is down to earth, full of real simplicity, utterly kind to everybody.’
Praise like that was not interpreted as a professional endorsement but as something warmer and more intimate. Audrey was startled by this revelation. Then she admitted thoughtfully, ‘That may very well be.’ - Alexander Walker
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