little girl

"well, one can't get over the habit of being a

little girl all at once"

- l.m. montgomery

sweet little doll

"i once had a sweet little doll, dears

the prettiest doll in the world…"

- charles kingsley

be yourself

"to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"

- ralph waldo emerson

while you got it

"there ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? you can only love what you got while you got it"

- kate dicamillo

without me

"what you are to do without me i cannot imagine"

- george bernard shaw

letting you go

"even as i hold you, i am letting you go."

- alice walker

i am beautifully sewn

"we are all damaged,

but because 

of her,

i am beautifully

sewn."

- Christopher Poindexter

For E

i'm crazy

"i'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

get along with the voices inside of my head

you're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

and you think i'm crazy, yeah you think i'm crazy

well, that's nothing…"

- eminem from "the monster"

ride more merry-go-rounds

"if i had my life to live over… i would ride more merry-go-rounds"

-nadine stair

(this is the 4th in a series i've been working on)

such great heights

"they will see us waving from such great heights

come down now, they'll say

but everything looks perfect from far away

come down now, but we'll stay"

- from "such great heights" by iron and wine

family

"a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one

person in it"

- mary karr

we love

"we love the things we love for what they are"

- robert frost

those who dance

"those who dance are considered insane by those who 

cannot hear the music"

- george carlin

beautiful

"and when all the wars are over,

a butterfly will still be beautiful"

- ruskin bond

the performer

"most men and women are forced to perform parts for which

they have no qualification"

- oscar wilde