Twisted sister

"The face and body may be perfect,

but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters,

may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"

-- John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Self portrait 7-22-13

"Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty;

we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection

can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind."

-- Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

Self portrait (2) 7-22-13

"The more fucked up you are, the more I like you.

As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit,

then it won't matter how twisted you are. 

I will love you more for it."

-- Ashly Lorenzana

Self portrait (3) 7-22-13

"The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at the truth."

-- Flannery O'Connor

Moody blues

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, 

and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

-- George Eliot,  
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Self portrait 6-26-13

“...trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression 

is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. 

A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work.”

-- Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

Self portrait 6-26-13

“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”

-- Gregory Maguire, 

A Lion Among Men

Feeling all kinds of everything, all colliding all over me, all at once, all the time.