Brittany

“Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.

In the cradle a child is screaming.

An old man sits over his death, and anyone

young enough talks to his love, breathes

into her lips, looks into her eyes.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

“I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?”
― Elaine Dundy, The Old Man and Me

“The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.”
― Diana Vreeland