the passionate evil

"this is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us."

- d.h. lawrence

love never dies a natural death

"love never dies a natural death.  it dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.  it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.  it dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

-anais nin

midsummer night dream

"and sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye,

steal me awhile from mine own company."

- william shakespeare

for then would i fly away

"oh that i had wings like a dove! for then would i fly away,

and be at rest."

- psalms 55:6


beautiful dove from the graphics fairy
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deception

"deceiving others. that is what the world calls a romance."

- oscar wilde

i am happy now

"and thus the words were spoken;

and this the plighted vow;

and, though my faith be broken,

and, though my heart be broken,

here is a ring as token

that i am happy now"

-from bridal ballad by edgar allen poe

downward spiral

"i feel myself diminished, parts of me spiraling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true- if you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely?"

-cassandra clare