a beginning

"...and to make an end is to make a beginning"

 -t.s. eliot

a gift

"someone i loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

it took me years to understand that this too,

was a gift"

- mary oliver

my whole world

"had i not created my whole world, i would certainly have died in other people's"

- anais nin

on the grass

"i want to lie down on the grass, rest on something living and see if i can hear the dead underneath"

- elizabeth scott

nolite te bastardes carborundorum

"nolite te bastardes carborundorum"

(don't let the bastards grind you down)

- margaret atwood, the handmaid's tale

heard

"whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard,

though silently"

- margaret atwood, the handmaid's tale