not quite

"saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new…"

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

i know

"…i know all about myself now, i know.

you've told me so often.

you haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in."

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

we can't all be

"we can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky- and it would be so much less fun if we were… 

there must be the dark background to show up the bright colors"

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

silent shout

"i never knew this could happen to me

i know now fragility

i know there's people who i haven't told

i know of people who are getting old

wish i could speak in just one sweep

what you are and what you mean to me

instead i mumble randomly

you stand by and enlighten me…"

- from "silent shout" by the knife

up high

"ah, the night is calling

and it whispers to me softly come and play

ah, i am falling

and if i let myself go i'm the only one to blame

i'm safe

up high

nothing can touch me

but why do i feel this party's over?

no pain

inside

you're like perfection

how do i feel this good sober?"

- from "sober" by pink

again

"help, i have done it again

i have been here many times before

hurt myself again today

and the worst part is there's no one else to blame…"

- from "breathe me" by sia

once upon a dream

"i know you, i walked with you once upon a dream

i know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam

and i know it's true that visions are seldom what they seem

but if i know you, i know what you'll do

you'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream"

the end

"summer will end soon enough,

and childhood as well."

- george r.r. martin

the same

"i always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. then i ask myself the same question."

- harun yahya

the wrong story

"if you ever find yourself in the wrong story,

leave."

- mo willems

keepsake

"one gonna heal my body another gonna heal my pain

one gonna settle me down then bring me back up again

i'm gonna put my family back together again…

one gonna hold my memories another gonna close the door

one gonna leave me restless another wanting more

you're gonna keep my soul it was yours to have long ago"

- from "keepsake" by state radio

monsters

"battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

- friedrich nietzsche

rid of oneself

"the point of flight. to get rid of oneself.

that was reason enough to fly."

- colum mccann