Get it together

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. 

Trying to control what cannot be controlled. 

I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. 

They will break no matter what we do.” 

-- Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Self portrait 6-5-13

“And oh she had been broken. 

She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience 

that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, 

you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”

-- Jodi Picoult, Second Glance 

“Something has got to hold it together. 

I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.” 

-- Tom Robbins

Past tense

“Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. 

Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life ...  

through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, 

never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting."

                                                                                           -- Kimberly Kinrade, Forbidden Fire

Collage face 4-29-13

 

“... everything is illuminated in the light of the past. 

It is always along the side of us ... on the inside, looking out.” 

                                                                                               -- Jonathan Safran Foer

  “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” 

                                                                     -- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Scarface

 “The human race tends to remember 

the abuses to which it has been subjected 

rather than the endearments. 

What's left of kisses? 

Wounds, however, leave scars.”

                                                   

                                                    -- Bertolt Brecht

Wounded (Styrofoam wig forms) 3-23-13

 “Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix