Flawless styling from a VOGUE shoot, scrapbooked.
'They merged quickly with my flesh, and I felt their small hearts flutter within my wrists, a babble of nervous pulses.' - JG Ballard, 'The Unlimited Dream Company'.
twitter.com/hizaomajieru The little birds.
twitter.com/hizaomajieru The little birds.
I was on a bus today just as all the kids were leaving school. I watch teenagers with interest: at 24 I have enough distance from them, but not so much that I don’t think about when I was their age. I was next to an old lady who seemed a little perturbed by all these adolescents, but I thought, we were both teenage girls one day, hanging around older boys who smoked because they thought it was cool, just like these girls we’re watching now and the next generation after that, and so on and so on. Some things won’t ever change, and that’s alright. Actually, it really made me smile.
“At this point it might be useful to wonder which of the idealisms that make our hearts beat faster will seem wrong-headed to people a hundred years from now.”
— Doris Lessing, ‘African Laughter’
“I like grey, and I also had this vision of a woman who comes home tired from work, and there is a book waiting for her, and it doesn’t matter what it looks like because she knows she will enjoy it.”
— Nicola Beauman, founder of Persephone Books
It’s been over a year since I carved this corner for myself. Now, I want to start using it properly, for myself. I have made the most positive change of the last two years, this month. It is hard and I am scared, but determined too.
…and here he is with Lykke Li.
