A Slightly Messy Post Ft: Several Photoshoots And Hopefully Some Summer Vibes

Full disclosure, this project made me lose my mind a little. It's not what I set out to do, but I'm okay with that. This project was heavily inspired by the Florence and the Machine music video 'Rabbit Heart' (Raise it Up)

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery- air, mountains, trees, people. And I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' -Sylvia Plath

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. -Raven King (Maggie Steifvater)

She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was so big it sometimes felt like sadness -Maggie Steifvater (The Raven Cycle)

There is nothing like love to put blood

 back in a language, 

The difference between the beach and its

discrete rocks and shards, a hard 

cuneiform, and the tender cursive 

of waves; bone & liquid fishegg, desert

& saltmarsh, a green push

out of death. The vowels plump

again like lips or soaked fingers, and the fingers

themselves move around these 

softening pebbles as around skin. The sky's 

not vacant and over there but close 

against your eyes, molten, so near

you can taste it. It tastes of 

salt. What touches 

you is what you touch.

-Margaret Atwood 

Remember this feeling. This is the moment that you stop being the rabbit. - Nora Sakavic (The Foxhole court)

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it to yourself, or someone else. -Margaret Atwood

  A midnight scribble, a morning sigh, you watch the words, curl up and die. Madness lives inside your head, of poems lost, and pages dead. A mind possessed, by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks. -Michael Faudet 

The best moments in reading are when you come across something- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things- that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, maybe someone even long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours. -The History Boys

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over -F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory- Dr. Suess

This was made through sheer spite against a certain stubborn breeze that kept blowing around tablecloths, the oppressive heat, and a butterfly that refused to stay put, among several other smaller inconveniences. In other words, I don't know what else I was expecting but I'm happy with how it worked out in the end.