“I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up.”
“Above the green plateau there is always grief,
which, inspired, becomes the breath of life.”
“I am unattached; My heart is very quiet. The world is a curtain.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
— Oscar Wilde
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
“Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.”
— Margaret Atwood, Circe/Mud Poems
“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”