Surrender Dorothy

“At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million

“Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

“She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau