Rose

“The shame of living extends its tentacles around my dreams.”
― Anne de Gandt

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I hide myself to avoid others; but the lust for life reasserts itself, through the boredom or in the inflection of distress. It's an escape, a tuneless melody, a painless lament. Broken line of a poem missing its author, writing of a deconstructed life, scar of a wound still open, the pain of living without love or being loved tarnishes desire, dulls the look, weakens the heart.”
― Anne de Gandt