in the land of gods and monsters

"in the land of gods and monsters

i was an angel

living in the garden of evil…"

-from "gods and monsters" by lana del rey

rhiannon

"…she rules her life like a bird in flight

and who will be her lover?

all your life you've never seen

a woman taken by the sky

would you stay if she promised you heaven?

would you even try?"

- from "rhiannon" by fleetwood mac

innocence

"that was my first instinct- to protect him. it never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect myself. innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it…"

- graham greene

nightmare

"i found him between a reality and a nightmare"

- shannon a. thompson

just a bad dream

"please put me to bed

and turn down the light

fold down your hands

give me a sign

hooked on your lies

lay down next to me

don't listen when i scream

bury your doubts and fall asleep

find out i was just a bad dream..."

- from "goodbye" by apparat

abyss

"i have fallen into an abyss. i live in a world so curious, so strange. of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare"

- camille claudel

perfection

"perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it;

it's a product of an assembly line."

- dejan stojanovic

the cheater

"neither love nor evil conquers all,

but evil cheats more"

- laurell k. hamilton

what he hides

"man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides"

- andre malraux