Primadonna girl, yeah, all I ever wanted was the world.

ashlings:

Lana Del Rey | “Young and Beautiful” (Full Orchestral Version)

“I would rather have a half assed version of a relationship with someone who I truly enjoy spending time that might not want to marry me or even “officially call me theirs” then a marriage proposal to someone that just looks good on paper.”

Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel.

Just keep swimming. 

“The world need poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.”

You’re plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.

Keira Knightley | photographed by Greg Williams (2012)

Her manic-depressive interludes never really left her, nor did her incipient TB, which fatally flared up again in 1967. She died at her home on the night of July 7. Hearing the news in his hospital room, where he was being treated for cancer, Olivier immediately discharged himself, and rushed to Leigh’s deathbed. ‘I stood and prayed for forgiveness for all the evils that had sprung up between us,’ he later wrote. ‘It has always been impossible for me not to believe that I was somehow the cause of Vivien’s disturbances.’