Are you there?

 

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Contact, Carl Sagan

The Mermaid

"I was birthed into the world with jewels."

We Will

"In the bittersweet I shall swallow the bitter, & let the sweet dance on my tongue."

All In

 "-such corners are as softened, sheltered from the outside air

...by oriental rugs that swallow sounds in their nap,

and hangings that make whispers

...unavoidable."

- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

In A Stardust Haze

"The force that directs these things in us higher beings and brings together lovers to bear the genius that will lead the world a step or two of the slow march toward its perfection..."

- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

 

A Promise of Cranes

"...enough kindness and love left over..."

A Day of Brilliant Ideas

"The initial mystery that attends each journey is: how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place?" - Louise Bogan

Blueprint

Like Cinderella's slipper, I searched far & wide, for the one who fit this wonderful song and chose to wear its sentiments.

Safety

"Breathe in the reflection, the bubble and flow
These are the flood waters from my well
And I am there, hand over womb

Haunting mouth against your neck

Whispering words with scented air

Wrapped in a caress that transcends the ages"

Bella Ruse

"Her flowers, cast into air, did gently float down to caress his entirety"

The Kidnapping of Kitty

"I may have lost contact with reality for a second or two"

- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Verisimilitudes

"May we?"

"Mais oui."

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Bella, Mybella

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World"

- Christopher Columbus

Aplomb

"I do not give a curse for you, or your anger."

- The Illiad, Homer

 

The Probable & the Possible

"The days stood their ground like monuments to timelessness."

- A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz

Repose

"...and the rest is rust and stardust"
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Diaphanous

 

"With your help I slept through the main of twilight & awoke to night."

Psirens

'The conjurer had poured milk, molasses, foaming champagne into a young lady’s new white purse; and lo, the purse was intact.'

- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Little Earthquakes in the Wee Hours

"There is something inherently beautiful about reading to another after they have already dissolved into dream; it's as if one is tenderly stroking their unconscious mind."

ab astris, ad sidera

"...the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental..."

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald