Vanesa M.

“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“Evanescent grace, you vanish as a vapor
does, or love in open air.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven

“The “night sea journey” is the journey into the parts of ourselves that are split off, disavowed, unknown, unwanted, cast out, and exiled to the various subterranean worlds of consciousness. It is the night sea journey that allows us to free the energy trapped in these cast-off parts—trapped in what Marion would call “the shadow.” The goal of this journey is to reunite us with ourselves. Such a homecoming can be surprisingly painful, even brutal. In order to undertake it, we must first agree to exile nothing.”
― Stephen Cope, The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

“Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone