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anokarina: “All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling.” ―Munia Khan🚦
anokarina: “You can start at any point and make connections that constitute a story about where we are and why, though the pursuit of those connections can feel like bushwhacking through a thicket.” ―Rebecca Solnit 😇
anokarina: “The battlefields of life were first meadows and gardens. We made them into battlefields, and by the same power, we must release the dark spell, so they are meadows and gardens once again.” ―Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason 🌸
anokarina: “I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.” ―Joyce Rachelle 🌸
anokarina: “I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough incentive.” ―Tyrion Lannister 💺
anokarina: “Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.” ―Adriaan Kortlandt 🌅
anokarina: “I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.” ―Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen 🗿🍂
anokarina: “There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.” ―Colette 🍂
anokarina: “Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ―Georgia O'Keeffe 🌹
anokarina: “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” ―Jonathan Safran Foer 🌹
anokarina: “In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.” ―Kakuzō Okakura, The Book Of Tea 🌹☀️
anokarina: “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” ―Karl Lagerfeld 🗿