I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?
I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by … - Elizabeth Smart
I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by …
- Elizabeth Smart
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. - Elizabeth Smart
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. - Elizabeth Smart
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work! - Elizabeth Smart
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was. - Elizabeth Smart
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could. - Elizabeth Smart
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.
Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have. - Elizabeth Smart
Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our ex… - Elizabeth Smart
We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our ex…
I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto. - Elizabeth Smart
I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.
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