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February Mood: pink lace, chocolate croissants, wearing that expensive lipstick for no occasion, reading reading reading, baby pink turtleneck, casual flirting, romance movies, cappuccino shade faux fur coat.

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sensitivity is a precious thing. i love knowing how my heart can ache and swell with unrelenting love and compassion. i have such a gentle spirit and i love to love. i keep my hands soft for holding and i always reserve time to dream

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“February, that month of fleetest sweetness.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to F.S. Cooper written c. February 1876

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corset and matching thong from agent provocateur. future me is lounging in lingerie like this, eating rose flavoured chocolate ...

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When Cleopatra welcomed Mark Antony to her bedroom, the floor was covered in a foot and a half of such petals. Did they use the floor, and make love in a swamp of soft, fragrant, shimmying petals? Or did they use the bed, as if they were on a raft floating in a scented ocean?

Cleopatra knew her guest. Few people have been as obsessed with roses as the ancient Romans. Roses were strewn at public ceremonies and banquets; rose water bubbled through the emperor’s fountains and the public baths surged with it; in the public amphitheaters, crowds sat under sun awnings steeped in rose perfume; rose petals were used as pillow stuffings; people wore garlands of roses in their hair; they ate rose pudding; their medicines, love potions, and aphrodisiacs all contained roses. No bacchanalia, the Romans’ official orgy, was complete without an excess of roses. They created a holiday, Rosalia, to formally consummate their passion for the flower. At one banquet, Nero had silver pipes installed under each plate, so that guests could be spritzed with scent between courses. They could admire a ceiling painted to resemble the celestial heavens, which would open up and shower them in a continuous rain of perfume and flowers. At another, he spent the equivalent of $160,000 just on roses—and one of his guests smothered to death under a shower of rose petals.

— Diane Ackerman, ‘Smell: Roses’ A Natural History of the Senses

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Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina - 2012

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"Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain."

-Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway

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ANNE SHIRLEY-CUTHBERT & COLE MACKENZIE — 3.01 | "There Is Something at Work In My Soul Which I Do Not Understand"

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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Paolo Sebastian | Once Upon A Dream

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