two selves

"we have two selves... one the world needs us to be, compliant... and the shadow... ignore it and life is forever suffering"

-american horror story

metal heart

"metal heart you're not hiding

metal heart you're not worth a thing"

-cat power

ghost in you

"and love is all of heaven away

inside you the time moves

and she don't fade

the ghost in you

she don't fade..."

-the psychedelic furs

walls

"her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high"

-william goldman

sail far

"sail far. sail fast."

-george r.r. martin

reflection

"did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?"

-bill watterson

gone

"once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all"

-jeannette walls

the castle

"and the castle in which she dwelt was a prison for her; and sometimes sudden fits of gusty passion would overtake her, for weariness grew to hate, and hate to wrath"

-lady dilke

insane

"mothers are all slightly insane"

-j.d. salinger

wolf woman self

"this wolf-woman self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create"

=clarissa pinkola estes

burn

"you must remember, burn them or they'll burn you..."

-ray bradbury

magic

"but all the magic i have known

i've had to make myself"

-shel silverstein

buried

"i was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead. and buried"

-simona panova

the swimmer

"there are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away"

-matshona dhilwayo

dream catcher

"the problem with catching dreams is you forget how truly incredible they are when you live with them everyday"

-stacey t. hunt

the saint

"a saint is a sinner who never gave up"

-paramahansa yogananda

headless

"i have been

hanging here

headless

for so long

that the body has forgotten

why

or where or when it

happened..."

-charles bukowski

dark forest

"she's got the whole dark forest living inside of her"

-tom waits

fantasy

"fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living"

-dr. seuss

clouds

"clouds suit my mood just fine"

-marie lu

escape

"when ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or another"

-anais nin

the story

"there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"

-maya angelou

disappear

"i should like to tidy things up and disappear"

-virginia woolf

flock of birds

"a flock of birds

hovering above

just a flock of birds

that's how you think of love...

so fly on

ride through

maybe one day i'll fly next to you..."

-from "O" by coldplay

make worlds

"i must make worlds beside this to live in"

-sylvia plath

danger

"...i do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes"

-c.s. lewis