sleeps in me

"i am terrified by this dark thing

that sleeps in me"

- from "Elm" by Sylvia Plath

look at me, ma

"the whole motivation for any performer 

is "look at me, ma""

- lenny bruce

swim

"you've gotta swim
swim for your life
swim for the music 
that saves you
when you're not so sure you'll survive
you gotta swim
and swim when it hurts
the whole world is watching
you haven't come this far
to fall off the earth
the currents will pull you
away from your love
just keep your head above…"

- from "swim" by jack's mannequin

the wall

"i was here but now i'm gone

i left my name to carry on

those who liked me

liked me well

those who didn't can go to hell.

-the bathroom wall"

- e.m. crane

found

"after all, we all know hide and seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found."

- callie hunter

seems evil

"good to evil seems evil."

- ray bradbury

worship

"we are a race prone to monsters…

and when we produce one we worship it."

- iain m. banks

the cruelest animal

"man is the cruelest animal."

- friedrich nietzsche

ghosts

"the muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited."

- stephen king

storm

"i want to be in the eye of the storm, holding your hand, and if you get sucked into it, i want to go with you."

- r.l. griffin

indigo

"hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. as blue as indigo. and you know what that means.

indigo. indigoing. indigone."

- tom robbins

recovering ophelia

"nobody wanted your dance,

nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering

drowning life and your effort to save yourself,

treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,

looking for something to give."

- ted hughes

waiting

"deep under our feet the earth holds its molten breath,

while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait."

- isaac marion

the edge

"i want to stand as close to the edge as i can without going over. out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center"

- kurt vonnegut

here

"i tell you, we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

- kurt vonnegut

trapped

"the animals, the animals

trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full

the cage is full

stay awake

in the dark, count mistakes

the light was off but now it's on

searching the ground for a bitter song

the sun is out, the day is new

and everyone is waiting, waiting on you

and you've got time…

-from "you've got time" by regina spektor

little rabbit

"be brave, little rabbit. take a chance."

- cherise sinclair

longing

"the sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure."

- cornelia funke

devils

"when angels are forced from the heavens, they become devils"

- vicious cowboy bebop

eyes closed

"living is easy with eyes closed"

- john lennon

straying away

"every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God"

- lenny bruce

disappear

"i know a man

he came from my home town

he wore his passion for his woman

like a thorny crown

he said "Delores

i live in fear

my love for you's so overpowering

i'm afraid that i will disappear""

- paul simon