• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  • A Separate Peace - John Knowles
  • Ada or Ador (A Family Chronicle) -Vladimir Nabokov
  • Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
  • I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg
  • Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Minor Characters - Joyce Johnson
  • Ornyx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
  • Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Prométhée Délivré - Shelley
  • Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  • Smile, Please - Jean Rhys
  • Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Blue Castle - L.M Montgomery
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
dec 2 2012 ∞
dec 13 2012 +
  • (Van and Ada)

"They were, at least, doing something- keeping up a semblance of consecutive action in which, despite the brilliant conversational gifts both possessed, would degenerate into a desperate vacuum of self-conscious loafing with no other resource than affected wit followed by silence."

  • (Ada to Van)

"But this," exclaimed Ada, "is certain, this is reality, this is pure fact- this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be taken away, can it? (it will, it was.) This has all come together here, no matter how the paths twisted, and fooled each other, and got fouled up: they inevitably met here!"

  • (Observation by Narrator)

"We have all seen the person who after ga...

jun 13 2012 ∞
jul 6 2012 +

♡ La Libellule Déprimée

♡ La Demoiselle Bleue

♡ La Caloptéryx Vierge

♡ La Chryside Flamboyante

♡ La Sympétrum Rouge Sang

♡ Le Gomphus Vulgatissimis

♡ La Caloptéryx Splendide

jun 13 2012 ∞
jun 13 2012 +
  • A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  • Ada or Ador (A Family Chronicle) - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
  • Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Minor Characters - Joyce Johnson
  • Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Prométhée Délivré - Shelley
  • Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  • Smile, Please - Jean Rhys
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  • The Rendez-Vous (and other stories) - Daphne De Maurier
  • The Virgin Suicide - Jeffery Eugenides
  • Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
jun 11 2012 ∞
dec 2 2012 +
  • The idea of Pangea, seperation. Holding on to personal items in different places and the (displaced yet familiar) sentiment that comes along with that. (discovered in an altered state of mind)

Similarly-- the disconnected sensation of trying to find home in the little things. How many places do we travel to again and again where we re-arrange our small belongings in some consistant manner in order to make it feel like home? Lorette places a lot of importance

  • The place wherein Lorette will look to pass amongst the fleurs.
may 7 2014 ∞
may 7 2014 +
  • Anna Karina
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Chantal Goya
  • Chantal Kelly
  • Christie Laume
  • Cœur de Pirate
  • Dorine
  • Edith Piaf
  • Frace Gall
  • Françoise Hardy
  • Gillian Hills
  • Jacqueline Taïeb
  • Jane Birkin
  • Marie Laforet
  • Ria Bartok
  • Stella
  • Sylvie Vartan
jun 13 2012 ∞
jul 17 2012 +

♡ Le Citron

♡ Le Demi-Deuil

♡ Le Souci

♡ La Piéride de lq Rave

♡ La Petite Tortue

♡ Le Paon de Jour

♡ Le Grand Collier Argenté

jun 13 2012 ∞
jun 13 2012 +
  • The Lost Explorer
  • Don Juan
  • Jules et Jim
jun 11 2012 ∞
feb 3 2013 +
  • Ailurophile - A cat-lover. 
  • Apogee - The point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited.
  • Assemblage - A gathering. 
  • Aubade - a song greeting the dawn. 
  • Becoming - Attractive.
  • Beleaguer - To exhaust with attacks.  
  • Betwixt - between.
  • Billet-doux - a love letter.
  • Brood - To think alone.
  • Bucolic - In a lovely rural setting.
  • Bungalow - A small, cozy cottage.
  • Chatoyant - Like a cat’s eye.
  • Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
  • Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
  • Comely - Attractive.
  • Conflate - To blend together.
  • Crepuscule - twilight; dusk.
  • Cynosure - A focal point of admiration.
  • Dalliance - A brief love affair.
jun 13 2012 ∞
jul 17 2012 +

♡ L'écaille matre

♡ L'écaille de Séneçon

♡ Le Procris

♡ Le Sphinx Demi-Paon

♡ Le Sphinx Tête-de-Mort

♡ Le Feuille-Morte du Chêne

♡ Le Zygène de la spirée

♡ La Phalène soufrée

jun 13 2012 ∞
jun 13 2012 +
  • Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
  • Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  • Breakfast of Champions Breakfast - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  • City of Glass - Paul Auster
  • Daisy Miller - Henry James
  • Gypsy Boy - Mikey Walsh
  • Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  • Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  • Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • On Moral Fiction - John Gardner
  • (other piles of nameless 25 cent vintage romance novels in thrift stores)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
  • The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
jun 11 2012 ∞
jun 13 2012 +