the sea

"my soul is full of longing

for the secret of the sea,

and the heart of the great ocean

sends a thrilling pulse through me."

- henry wadsworth longfellow

raining

"don't take your toys inside just because it's raining"

- cher

belief

"it is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable"

- maya angelou

father

"he promised us that everything would be okay. i was a child, but i knew that everything would not be okay. that did not make my father a liar. it made him my father."

- jonathan safran foer

absence

"absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on air."

- gail caldwell

dreams

"it takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else"

-erma bombeck

see

"we don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are."

- anais nin

for the night is dark

"for the night is dark and full of terrors"

- george r.r. martin

white wedding

"hey little sister what have you done?

hey little sister who's the only one?

hey little sister who's your superman?

hey little sister who's the one you want?

hey little sister shot gun.

it's a nice day to start again.

it's a nice day for a white wedding.

it's a nice day to start again."

- from "white wedding" by billy idol

ruins

"these fragments i have shored against my ruins"

- t.s. eliot

fading

"he was already fading. i knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much i tried to cling onto his memory"

- caroline green

uninvited

"the muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited"

- stephen king