Soldier on

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime,
and falling in at night.
I miss you like hell."

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters

"Soldier on," 11-26-13

"What's broken is broken --

and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best

than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live."

-- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

"Soldier on (2)," 11-26-13 

"How badly is it broken?"

"It's in a million little pieces."

"I'm afraid I can't help you."

"Why?"

"There's nothing you can do."

"Why?"

"It can't be fixed."

"Why?"

"It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces."

-- James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

"If all else perished, and he remained,

I should still continue to be;

and if all else remained, and he were annihilated,

the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

-- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

For crying out loud

"And I knew who wept, 

and what had been done to her, 

and who had done it."

-- C. S. Lewis

Self portrait 8-4-13

"He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip

with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory."

-- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Self portrait (2) 8-4-13

"Tears are the noble language of eyes ...

The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute."

-- Robert Herrick, "Tears are Tongues"

Try a little tenderness

"Tender," she said again. 

"Tender is kind and gentle. 

It's also sore, 

like the skin around an injury.”

                                                                                        --Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between

Polymer clay sad face 4-23-13

Please be gentle.
I am feeling tender today.

P.S. I am featured today on 365-days guru Noah Scalin's "Make Something 365 and Get Unstuck" blog. Check it out at http://makesomething365.blogspot.com/2013/04/erins-face-day.html