the muses are ghosts

"the muses are ghosts, and sometimes

they come uninvited."

- stephen king

prison

"i hold myself prisoner somehow.

i know i do.

i know it is my own illusion, this prison which i live-

yet i cannot break free, though i try so hard."

- marianne williamson

rushing

"life moves very fast.

it rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."

- paulo coelho

the void

"worry not

if you are in darkness

and the void sucks you in further.

this is not the place we go to die.

it's where we are born

and our stories begin."

- kamand kojouri

the fighter

"i'm fighting my way into existence, and i will keep 

doing so until the end of time"

-charlotte eriksson

free?

"i'm a free spirit who never had the balls to be free."

- cheryl strayed

boys don't cry

"...i try to laugh about it

cover it all up with lies

i try and laugh about it

hiding the tears in my eyes

'cause boys don't cry

boys don't cry..."

- the cure

off with his head

"off with his head!"

-lewis carroll

damned things

"i drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things

learned how to swim."

- frida kahlo

i ride

"i ride earth's burning carousel.

day in, day out."

- sylvia plath

burn

"from ashes i came

to ashes, i'll return

but tonight i'm content

to sit here and burn"

- c.b. roberts

girl in the mirror

"the girl in the mirror wasn't who i wanted to be and her life wasn't the one i wanted to have."

-francesca lia block

stranger in a strange land

"i'm a stranger in a strange land"

- carson mccullers

lighter

"may your heart be lighter today"

-harley king

diving

"death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself"

-maitreya r.

damn it feels good to be a gangsta

"also, gasping is for damsels, and i'm a gangster"

-tarryn fisher

under the bell jar

"because wherever i sat...i would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."

-sylvia plath