Saturday, January 31, 2015

transformations


"i take pleasure in my transformations.
i look quiet and consistent, but few know
how many women there are in me."

- anais nin

stuck



"what if i'm stuck. 
here.
forever."

- kathryn stockett

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

the storm


this level reach of blue is not my sea;
here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,
whose quiet ripples meet obediently
a marked and measured line, one after one.
this is no sea of mine. that humbly laves
untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm.
i have a need of wilder, crueler waves;
they sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.


so let a love beat over me again,
loosing its million desperate breakers wide;
sudden and terrible to rise and wane;
roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide
that casts upon the heart, as it recedes,
splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.

- dorothy parker, sunset gun: poems

Monday, January 26, 2015

a beginning


"captivity ends when creativity begins"

- constance chuks friday

Saturday, January 24, 2015

dragons


"people who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons.
from within."

- ursula k. le guin

Thursday, January 22, 2015

what if you fly?


"there is freedom waiting for you,
on the breezes of the sky,
and you ask "what if i fall?"
oh but my darling,
what if you fly?"

- erin hanson

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

surrender


"don't despair:
despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming.
you don't-
surrender to events with hope."

- alain de botton

Sunday, January 18, 2015

my cage


"our cage
we make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
and sing our bondage freely"

- william shakespeare

Saturday, January 17, 2015

dance


"if you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance"

- george bernard shaw

Thursday, January 15, 2015

scars


"i show my scars so that others know they can heal"

- rhachelle nicol

Monday, January 12, 2015

the darkness


"it was the darkness that got you. it was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. it made walls around you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe."

-jean ryhs

Sunday, January 11, 2015

fire and wings


"i want more of this feeling - fire and wings."

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

ghosts


"i am empty of everything. i am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room."

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

untold story


"there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- maya angelou