Verity

I am going to transmute from hysteria to health, from emotion to action, from weakness to strength on earth.

“you are still learning. you are still changing. you are still growing. breathe. you will find your way.”

“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“There are days when she can hold the burden of the world with her arms And there are also days when she can’t even hold the burden of her mind.”

“The stars are not silent; they sing songs too ancient for hurried ears.”

Everything is alive and thriving in Death’s garden. Even the gardener, Life, is Death in disguise.

Momentarily at times when, after reading certain books, his disgust for everyday life was accentuated, he longed for lenitive hours in a cloister, where the monotonous chant of prayers in an incense-laden atmosphere would bring on a somnolence, a dreamy rapture of mystical ideas.

“Not for the first time I feel that this place is haunted, by the ghosts of those not yet dead, my own included.”

Lilies in your veins. Lilac and blackcurrant nested in your hair. We hibernate in that fragrant labyrinth.

You singe my heavy dreams. I will hold you in my mouth like salt, a talisman against the odds of one dusky night throwing all her stars.

“Love that lingers beyond the veil does not decay—it becomes the echo that haunts and heals in equal measure.”

“Anger is supposed to be liberating, so goes the mythology, but her anger has not freed her in any way that she can see. It’s only made her emptier, flowing out of her like this.”