anniebluesky.•*♥:
"You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"As their shoulders touched, the riverboat was no longer earthbound. With only the two of them aboard, it lifted into the sky..."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"...between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history..."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind..."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"They turned a corner and headed toward the famous Bourbon Street."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Nor, perhaps, did they see the crumbling buildings where the city's poor live as they traveled by cab from the French Quarter to Commander's Palace. "
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"I hold a glass of Coke to my cheek and pretend it is a glass of bourbon and I am in New Orleans."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Once I feel his hand on my cheek and try to trap it, but it dissolves like mist through my fingers."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"New Orleans. Exquisite, old-fashioned. A great place to live vicariously."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"...but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"...if you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Masquerades disclose the reality of souls. As long as no one sees who we are, we can tell the most intimate details of our life."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"...folding her fingers around the delicate bowl of a porcelain teacup. Looking pale and exhausted, her blue eyes ringed with dark shadows, she swallowed a mouthful of heavily sweetened tea before continuing."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"... and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream..."
anniebluesky.•*♥:
"There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way."
