“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then what?" I ask. "Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in." I consider this for a moment. "What if it's too small but you still want to live there?" … Continue reading Quote for Today: Christina Baker Kline
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Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
Quote for Today: Arzum Uzun
And then you leave the memories behind. When you look at the pictures It seems like it was always fun. But you know that in that photo everyone was actually broken deep down inside. Wounded. Bleeding. Crying and yelling at the same time. They were some kinda wounded birds... Eagles, wrens... When you remember … Continue reading Quote for Today: Arzum Uzun
Quote for Today: Margery Williams
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Margery Williams
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. --Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
Quote for Today: Andrea Gibson
it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate … Continue reading Quote for Today: Andrea Gibson
Quote for Today: Phindiwe Nkosi
We are designed to dance. To use our bodies as weapons of grace, beauty and intrigue. We are designed to stretch until we master growth. To replace old dead cells and be physically renewed each moment. ―Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital Image: Choreography Insitute Laban, Berlin, 1929 © Bundesarchive, Germany with CCLicense
