Ellis Franklyn:
"And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth"
Ellis Franklyn:
"Hide it all behind a wall let people wait and never trust a heart that is so bent it can’t break"
Ellis Franklyn:
"The sweeping insensitivity of this still life"
Ellis Franklyn:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me"
Ellis Franklyn:
"I'm a repeat first time offender who has rewritten history."
Ellis Franklyn:
"Slipping steadily into madness...Now that's the only place to be free."
Ellis Franklyn:
Self portraits in the sunshine..
Ellis Franklyn:
Lately my hands they don't feel like mine..
Ellis Franklyn:
Someone tell me how I feel..
Ellis Franklyn:
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in..
Ellis Franklyn:
And the world’s got me dizzy again You think after 21 years I’d be used to the spin..
Ellis Franklyn:
Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind?
Ellis Franklyn:
"Self-portraiture is a singular in-turned art. Something eerie lurks in its fingering of the edge between seer and seen" - Julian Bell
Ellis Franklyn:
Louder than sirens, louder than bells, sweeter than heaven and hotter than hell...
Ellis Franklyn:
There was a crack in your smile the day you were born...
Ellis Franklyn:
What's that saying..? "Why do I keep hitting myself in the head with a hammer?".....because it feels so good when I stop.
Ellis Franklyn:
And i'm afraid to sleep because of what haunts me, such as living with the uncertainty, that i'll never find the words to say which would completely explain, just how i'm breaking down.
Ellis Franklyn:
Everything had beauty but not everyone sees it.
Ellis Franklyn:
we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them, the people that are still with you at the end of the day - those are the ones worth keeping.
Ellis Franklyn:
No more dreaming like a girl so inlove with the wrong world...
Ellis Franklyn:
Some day my pain will mock you
Ellis Franklyn:
Some say the world will end in fire...some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire.
Ellis Franklyn:
You still live inside of me....and you are the fire in my tree...