how to fly

"the sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly"

- the killers

be the heroine

"above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim"

- nora ephron

jezebel

"who's seen jezebel?

she was born to be the woman we could blame

make me a beast half as brave

i'd be the same"

from the song jezebel by iron and wine

books

"you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive"

- james baldwin

to hell with death

"al diablo la muerte, mientras la vida nos dure."

(to hell with death while we're still alive)

immortal dead

"oh, may i join the choir invisible

of those immortal dead who live again."

-george eliot

there's a bluebird in my heart

"there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but i'm too tough for him,

i say, stay in there, i'm not going

to let anybody see

you...

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but i'm too clever, i only let him out

at night sometimes

when everybody's asleep.

i say, i know that you're there,

so don't be

sad.

then i put him back,

but he's singing a little

in there, i haven't quite let him

die...

-charles bukowski


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