My Love

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~Roger Caras

Rain

"Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but it's about how to dance in the rain"
~Taylor Swift~

Fearless

"To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before fearless is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. I think loving someone despite what people think is fearless."
-Taylor Swift

Bed by Day

I remember reading this poem as a child, and completely identifying with it. I never understood why I had to go to bed when the sun was shining through my blinds, and I could hear teenagers laughing and talking outside my window. It's strange to me that now I am the one staying up, and keeping young children awake, because they hear my voice outside their windows.

Bed in Summer

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Marilyn Monroe Tribute

Tonight I made my second attempt at Marilyn Monroe makeup (meaning red lipstick and the flick at the end of her eyeliner). It turned out fairly decent, though the red lipstick was a bit bright. I felt I'd share some of the better pictures, and add a few of my favorite quotes by her. Enjoy!


"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
~Marilyn Monroe~

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
~Marilyn Monroe~


"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
~Marilyn Monroe~



"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
~Marilyn Monroe~




"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
~Marilyn Monroe~




"If you're gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty."
~Marilyn Monroe~

Friends

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." ~Jane Austen~

Introvert

I didn't know she was an introvert...



"I restore myself when I'm alone" ~Marilyn Monroe~

Grief

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." -C.S. Lewis

Tears Are Telescopes

"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." -Henry Ward Beecher

Upwards

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." -Charlotte Bronte