drown...

Overflow gently — don’t drown.

— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1935-1951)

W contributor Tim Walker's short film, inspired by his story "Far, Far From Land

image taken from video

a must see on youtube

storm...

"When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. 

That’s what this storm’s all about."

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Nikolay Biryukov

less convinced...

Staying very still in the darkness, I became less and less convinced of the fact that I actually existed.

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Northern Women in Chanel by Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz

quietness...

The snow has quietness in it; no songs,

no smells, no shouts or traffic.

When I speak

my own voice shocks me.

—Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones
image by me

forever...

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…

I could walk through my garden forever. 

-Alfred Tennyson

morgan chelf

shipwrecks...

Some people know sadness

the way the sea knows shipwrecks.

— Amelia M. Garcia

Boris Ovini

love me long...

Aime-moi moins, mais aime-moi longtemps

—"Les chansons d’amour" 

(Love me less but love me long)
sounds so much better in french 
 Paolo Roversi Styled by Edward Enninful

less...

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being,

then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

— Abraham Maslow

Editorial detail of Guinevere van Seenus in ‘Dreaming of Another World’ by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia March 2011

hell….

If I'm right,’ she said, ‘and you have all sorts of juicy information in that dossier of yours, you’ll know that I am an abnormally forgiving person, even of those who have used me and hurt me more than one person deserves to be hurt. But right this second, I am looking forward to the day you rot in hell.” 
― Ally Blake, Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue

Gisele Bündchen by Mert & Marcus for POP #8 Spring/Summer 2004

What you did….

I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

— Maya Angelou

s-sur/real | valerija kelava by julia hetta for double magazine #26