into the heart of darkness

"we penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness"

-joseph conrad

the end of a journey

"they spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey."

-cormac mccarthy

immortality

"immortality is the condition of a dead man who 

doesn't believe he is dead."

- h.l. mencken

did you know the peacock is a symbol of immortality in some religions???

for this week's take a word challenge (peacock)

i took the tomb photograph at Greyfriars cemetery in Edinburgh, Scottland...amazing place

white peacock courtesy of charfade:

http://charfade.deviantart.com/

my whole world

"had i not created my whole world,

i would certainly have died in other people's."

-anais nin

locked in

"i thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out;

and i thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

-virgina woolf

the vivid tulips

"...nobody watched me before, now i am watched.

the tulips turn to me, and the window behind me

where once a day the light slowly widens and slowly thins

and i see myself, flat, ridiculous, a cut-paper shadow

between the eye of the sun and the eyes of the tulips,

and i have no face, i have wanted to efface myself.

the vivid tulips eat my oxygen..."

-from tulips by sylvia plath

for collage obsession weekly challenge (tulips)


ballerinas and tulips from Graphics Fairy
(see button on right)

all mothers are slightly insane

"all mothers are slightly insane"

-j.d. salinger

happy mother's days to all of us moms...stay crazy!

what the hell

"ever notice how 'what the hell' is always the right answer?"

-marilyn monroe

thanks to quaddles at deviant art for the amazing vintage lady:

http://quaddles.deviantart.com/art/English-Lady-51-quaddles-82939811

ambition

"women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
 -marilyn monroe


for this week's three muses challenge (vintage glamour)

dance with death

"speak to me of the dark gifts, i use them,

i'm gentleman death in silk and lace,

come to put out the candles.

- ann rice

for take a word challenge (gentleman)

every wall is a door

"every wall is a door."

-ralph waldo emerson

another one for the collage obsession challenge (doors)

i open every door

"not knowing when the dawn will come,

i open every door..."

-emily dickinson

for collage obsession weekly challenge (doors)

found out

"there are no good girls gone wrong-

just bad girls found out."

-mae west

modern romance

"don't hold on

go get strong

well don't you know

there is no modern romance

time is gone

it stops who it wants

well i was wrong

it never lasts

and there is no

well this is no

modern romance"

- from modern romance by yeah yeah yeahs

(hear song on project playlist on right)

in a world of sad ghosts

"to be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."

-henry miller

what are you hiding?

"why are we so full of restraint?

why do we not give in all directions?

is it fear of losing ourselves?

until we lose ourselves there is no hope

of finding ourselves."

-henry miller