brave

"…instead of rushing towards the skyline

i wish that i could just be brave

i must become the lion hearted girl

ready for a fight…"

- from "rabbit heart" by florence and the machine

charmer

"charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind"

-kurt vonnegut

fantasy

"everybody must have a fantasy."

- andy warhol

the pack

"throw me to the wolves &

i'll return leading the pack"

- unknown

dare

"until that moment she had never thought she could do it.  never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough or desperate enough to dare"

-neil gaiman

fierce

"though she be but little, she is fierce!"

- william shakespeare

i'll take it

"you can have the other words- chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity.  i'll take grace.  i don't know what it is exactly, but i'll take it."

- mary oliver

coming back

"and now you'll be telling stories

of my coming back

and they won't be false, and they won't be true

but they'll be real"

-mary oliver

doll parts

"…i am doll parts

bad skin

doll heart…

i want to be the girl with the most cake

i love him so much it just turns to hate

i fake it so real i am beyond fake

and someday you will ache like i ache…"

- from "doll parts" by hole

in the company of the wolf

"those are the voices of my brothers, darling; i love the company of wolves."

-angela carter

gone away

"i've seen the meanness of humans till i don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away."

- cormac mccarthy

games

"life is more fun if you play games"

- roald dahl

evil

"it is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul"

-ursula k. le guin

grace

"i do not understand the mystery of grace- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us."

- anne lamott

dream big

"they say i dream too big.

i say they think too small."

- unknown

give up the shit

"you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down"

- toni morrison

moondance

"well, it's a marvelous night for a moon dance

with the stars up above in your eyes…"

-van morrison

a beast

"sometimes i think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that i can't help but do something inappropriate.  it's breath is full of lies; it smells of spite."

-jodi picoult

sacrifice

"those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice"

- david kenyon webster

i shall rise

"as i walk the desert sands

through the flames of burning lands

my feet are torn they're torn to strands

i will not thirst

as i cross the raging seas

waves are crashing over me

they drag me down they drag me down

i will not drown

they'll know my name

after the storms are passing through

they'll know my name

when they've forgotten all about you…

and i shall rise

oh well rise again and again

i shall rise

oh well rise again and again"

-from "i shall rise" by karen o 

haunted

"i don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't"

-beth gutcheon

black sheep

"the only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged…was knowing where she didn't."

-tessa shaffer