a secret

"always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.  Life itself had become a secret affair."

- mary balogh

roots

"i love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!"

- akilnathan logeswaran

when i am queen

"…when i am queen i'll have my way

i'll make it drowning dollie day

and all the tears that we have cried

will suck back in our eyes…"

- from "when i am queen" by jack off jill

dangerous toys

"how many have to die before we give up these dangerous toys?"

- stephen king

i pray to the birds

"i pray to the birds because they remind me of what i love rather then what i fear. and at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen."

- terry tempest williams

strange little memories

"people leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die"

- haruki murakami

absence

"but now, i know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird."

-audrey niffenegger

disappear

"disappear, she says. i love that word."

-will christopher baer

radio is

"radio is theater of the mind…"

- steve allen

to be yourself

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

- ralph waldo emerson

my lovely moon

"go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."

- khaled hosseini

tear off the mask

"tear off the mask.  your face is glorious."

- rumi

shed

"you'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be"

- vironika tugaleva