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"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

-- Dr. Seuss

Self portrait 8-13-13

"Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide?

Spend your life trying to fit in."

-- Brandon Mull

"The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go.

Life is too short to blend in."

-- Paris Hilton

A touchy subject

"Only a girl like this
can know what's happened to you.
If she were here she would
reach out her arms towards
you now, and touch you
with her absent hands
and you would feel nothing, but you would be
touched all the same.”

-- Margaret Atwood, "Girl Without Hands"

Self portrait 6-11-13

  

“I know it’s hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. 

You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out 

any time someone touches you.” 

-- Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us,

we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,

have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds 

with a warm and tender hand."

-- Henri Nouwen

Now you see me

“A tangled forest and the feeling of hidden eyes watching.”

― James C. Christensen, Voyage of the Basset

Self portrait with black paper flowers 5-14-13

 

"You are like a chestnut burr, 

prickly outside, but silky-soft within, 

 and a sweet kernel, 

if one can only get at it.” 

-- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 

Self portrait with black paper flowers (2) 5-14-13

Tangled up in blue

 

“You can keep as quiet as you like, 

but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”

                                   

         -- Haruki Murakami, IQ84

Self portrait 5-2-13

 

“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by --
And never knew.”

                                                                                 -- Shel Silverstein, Everything On It