There's an image of you, behind my eyes that haunts me
It's vivid and it's bright and it swings with a weight that crushes
-Elliot Root, June After Dark
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.
-The Thing Is, Ellen Bass
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
I live in another world
where life and death are memorized,
Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls
and all I see are dark eyes
-Dark Eyes, Bob Dylan
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweetness
And you fill my head with you.
-Bloom, The Paper Kites
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
I know who I am now
and all that you've made of me
I know who you are now
and I name you my enemy
I know who I am now
I know who I want to be
I want to be more than
This devil inside of me
-Wormwood, The Oh Hellos
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.
-1Q84, Haruki Murakami
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
They say whoever you think of when you stand in front of the ocean is the one you love.
For a week I stood there. The sand reminded me of your skin. The sun, your smile. And the stars, your eyes. For a week I stood in front of all of these beaches of different names, but I only read yours on every wave. No matter how far I sunk, or miles I overcame, or how restless I became, I could not shake away the thought of you.
I’m not sure if that means something is incredibly wrong with me or something is perfectly right with you.
-Unknown
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
Look closer and you’ll see something
Extraordinary,
Mystifying,
Something real and true,
We’ve never been what we seemed.
-Zelda Fitzgerald
Part of a series of illustrated quotes based on the meanings of flowers.
