1233rd.

"The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow." - Theodore Roethke


Photo is "In the Shadows" - from uzunogluahmet.

1232nd.

"I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break." - Marya Hornbacher


Photo is "Intimacy" - from KatersArt.

1231st.

"Leaving is not enough; you must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he's never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don't wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don't lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street." - Frida Kahlo


Photo is "Frida" - from Maradinn.

1230th.

"I want what we had, I just want to feel it with someone else." - The Front Bottoms


Photo is "Someone Else's Dream" - from Olga-Zervou.

1229th.

"I will not forget you, though. I don't think that you particularly deserve my memory, nor do I flatter myself into believing that you return my sense of vague wistfulness. There is no part of me that wants to return to the limbo I existed in for so long, or even the often-imagined parallel universe in which you reciprocated my feelings to the letter. I do, however, want to remember what it feels like to be hurt, to want, to need something so desperately only to find out that your life is perfectly fine without it. As much as the little scar on my knee will always remind me to watch out when I am running, yours on my heart will teach me to be kind. Because I know what it feels like to be cast aside with indifference, and I know that it's a pain from which the body itself takes a long time to recover. You will live in my mind as a cautionary tale, a fable of how much damage words can do - especially when they are insincere. And though I am not nostalgic for what we did have, I am hopeful about life being filled with everything we didn't." - Chelsea Fagan


Photo is "Lessons" - from MultiCurious.

1228th.

"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." - Robin Williams


Photo is "Alone" - from BlackCloudConnected.

1227th.

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze." - Gilbert K. Chesterton


Photo is "Daylight" - from catch---22.