Claire

“Awareness hurts. Relationships hurts. Life hurts. But to float, to drift, to live in the dream does not hurt.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“The whole world is based on fear, even behind the jealousy of the day before lay dear. Fear of being alone, fear of being abandoned, fear of life, fear of being trapped in tragedy, fear of the animal in us, fear of one's hatred, of committing a crime, fear of cancer, of syphilis, of starvation.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“Music spilling out of from the eyes in place of tears, music spilling from the throat in place of words, music falling from his fingertips in place of caresses, music exchanged between them instead of love, yearning of five lines, the five lines of their thoughts , their reveries, their emotions, their unknown self, their giant self, their shadow.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“She had forced the hourglass of pain to turn. They had pursued each other. They had tried to possess each other. They had been slaves of a pattern, and not of love.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice