"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real ( Read more... )

"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
- TS Eliot

the beauty of fireworks lies in their temporal existance. how they shine for that instant, and fade away the next, drawing parallel to our lives. why do people attempt to capture something that is fleeting, trying to freeze that moment of beauty into a pathetic frame, when what they capture is a mere shadow of the brilliance the original spark ( Read more... )