Walking Distance

bourbonandpearls:

loverofbeauty:

Edouard Manet:  Plums (1880)

Going to the Monet to Matisse exhibit this weekend (which includes Manet as well!), very excited

bourbonandpearls:

loverofbeauty:

Edouard Manet:  Plums (1880)

Going to the Monet to Matisse exhibit this weekend (which includes Manet as well!), very excited

She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as to belie the notion of “belly.” Her exquisite bone structure immediately slipped into a novel - became in fact the secret structure of that novel, besides supporting a number of poems.

—Vladimir Nabokov (via victorielle)

(Source: oscillates, via victorielle)