Salvador Dali – Ménagère (Cutlery Set) 1957

might fuck around and start dating the demon from the corner of my room

collector of small and meaningful objects (with no inherent use other than to make the heart glow a little softer)

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

Joan Didion (via mythologyofblue)

Kim Addonizio, ‘What Was’, What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

show me the forbidden coping mechanisms

— Spring, by Sir John Lavery

TRAVEL DESK SET

Ivory, Malachite, Silver-gilt

1849

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN 

The set comprises one twin-bottle inkstand with central bowl, one velvet covered letter box with key, one velvet covered blotter, one paperweight cast as a dragon, one inkwell shaped as a turret with dragon finial, one bell with carved ivory handle, one pen rest, one chamber candlestick with a cast dragon handle, one tapering vase, one paper-clip with a cast dragon, two photograph frames, one candle-snuffer and one paper-knife.

when people ask how long you’ve been online