Brigitte Bardot
Lily Collins for in an ad campaign for Lancome, 2014.
Paintings come to life "some girls like….pretty girls." {x}
The Abracadabra rose is a hybrid with maroon and soft yellow coloring, with no two blooms looking the same. It originated in Germany as a variation of the Hocus Pocus rose, which is mostly maroon with flecks of yellow.
Osiria Rose has a lovely two color combination of blood-red petals on the inside and silvery white on the outside
This is the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
by Isabel Snyder, 1994
Portrait of Catherine Gray, Lady Manners (detail),1794.Thomas Lawrence.
Romeo and Juliet, 1968
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Woman with a Rose - Kenneth Frazier
1892
Friedrich Nietzsche, posthumous fragment (via hereticnarrative)
J.M. Barrie (via linguistry)
John William Waterhouse, The Soul of the Rose