blackfantastix

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. 
Maya Angelou 

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. 
John Steinbeck 

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  

Anne Bradstreet

Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. 
Claudia Johnson 

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does, it may come out second best. 
John Hart 

“Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; …”

Simone de Beauvoir

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. 
Voltaire 

Gardens… should be like lovely, well-shaped girls:  all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.  

H.E. Bates, A Love of Flowers

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl’s hair. You can walk past someone and be like, ‘Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn’t you? Because you smell lovely!’ 
Jensen Ackles 

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. 
Lord Chesterfield 

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? 
James Montgomery 

“The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in bed”

-  Geoffrey Gorer

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. 
Judy Garland 

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.

- Sarah Dessen