death smiles at us all

"death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back"

- unknown

day of the dead

"there is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning"

- thornton wilder

i never want to grow up

"oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about i never want to grow up."

- stephen king

ship to wreck

"…and oh my love remind me, what was it that i did?

did i drink too much?

am i losing touch?

did i build this ship to wreck?…"

-from "ship to wreck" by florence and the machine

live inside the hope

"the very least you can do in your life if figure out what you hope for.

and the most you can do is live inside that hope.

not admire it from a distance but live right in it…"

- barbara kingsolver

hurt

"…and you could have it all

my empire of dirt

i will let you down

i will make you hurt

i wear this crown of thorns

upon my liars chair

full of broken thoughts

i cannot repair

if i could start again

a million miles away

i will keep myself

i would find a way"

-from "hurt" by nine inch nails

something lost

"the quiet sense of something lost"

- alfred lord tennyson

her turn to go?

"said you're gonna shoot me down, put my body in the rive

shoot me down, put my body in the river

while the whole world sings, sing it like a song

the whole world sings like there's nothing going wrong…

oh, and tell me what's a man with a rifle in his hand

gonna do for a world that's just dying slow?

tell me what's a man with a rifle in his hand

gonna do for his daughter when it's her turn to go?"

- from "the body electric" by hurray for the riff raft

how many?

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

- stephen king

mysteries

"no one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart."

-kim edwards

(black swans indicate deep mysteries within us that are longing to be set free to express themselves)