violentwavesofemotion: “The smell of coffee, white dust, tobacco and burnt bread, flowers with a...

violentwavesofemotion:

“The smell of coffee, white dust, tobacco and burnt bread, flowers with a fragrance of wine, and the crimson fruit, soft and overripe. A girl looking over her bare shoulder, with a flash of a smile, gold ear-rings showing from thick black hair brushed away from her face, long arms, a cigarette between her lips. Night like a great dark blanket, voices murmuring at a street corner, the air warm with tired flowers, and a hum from the sea.”

— Daphne du Maurier, from “I Will Never Be Young Again,” published c. 1932