her fire

"she's mad but she's magic.

there's no lie in her fire"

-charles bukowski

tamed

"one runs the risk of weeping a little,

if one lets oneself be tamed..."

-antoine de saint-exupery

evil

"see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

magic

"books are uniquely portable magic"

-stephen king

once upon a time

"once upon a time- because that's how all the best stories start, even the ones that lead to death and darkness

and unhappy ever after"

-katharine corr

embrace

"our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"

-albert einstein

rebel children

"rebel children, i urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory"

-russell brand

except yourself

"i think the reward for conformity is that everyone

likes you except yourself"

-rita mae brown

the golden cage

"you cannot expect a bird to be happy because you bought 

him a golden cage"

-zain baloch

ride free

"ride big

ride long

ride free"

-foster kinn

butterflies

"we are like butterflies who flutter for a day

and think it is forever"

-carl sagon

triplets

"...they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in prison"

- ian mcdonald

innocence

"all things truly wicked start from innocence"

-ernest hemingway

walk in the clouds

"when i do not walk in the clouds i walk as though i were lost"

-antonio porchia

come as you are

"come as you are"

-nirvana

princes

"we were not made to please princes"

-leigh bardugo

befriend the winds

"if you really wanna fly, learn to befriend the winds"

- curtis tyrone jones

a prayer

"a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages"

-tennessee williams

dearly wish

"...how i dearly wish i was not here..."

- from "every day is like sunday" by morrissey

clouds

"tried to forget me.  you'll think of me

every time you see clouds"

-jordan hoechlin

a clown

"roses are red

violets are blue

a clown killed a boy

and ate him up too"

-tim burton

moonlight

"i tread paths by moonlight that others fear to 

speak of during day"

-patrick rothfuss

woman

"well-behaved women seldom make history"

-laurel thatcher ulrich

mothers

"mothers are all slightly insane"

-j.d. salinger

circle

"life is a full circle, widening until it joins

the circle motions of the infinite"

-anais nin

into the mystic

"...smell the sea, and feel the sky,

let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic..."

-van morrison

sunday

"o holy sunday, let your darkness not come along my way"

-santosh kalwar

this great stage

"when we are born, we cry that we are come to

this great stage of fools"

-william shakespeare

bold as a lion

"i am bold as a lion"

-lailah gifty akita