serenity

God grants me the serenity…

(an ex voto)

your enemy

"be alert and of sober mind. your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

- NIV Bible (1 Peter 5:8)

to burn

"to burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."

- federico garcia lorca

in a fairytale

"we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss"

- paulo coelho

hold on

"never think that God's delays are God's denials.

hold on; hold fast; hold out…"

- george louis leclerc

the bastards

"i tried to drown my sorrows,

but the bastards learned how to swim…"

- frida kahlo

glorious

"tear off the mask;

your face is glorious"

- rumi

the loner

"let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. it's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

- jodi picoult

the pretenders

"i don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are."

- madeleine l'engle

the artist

"artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."

- d.w. winnicott