they used us like dolls. like they could wind us up and make us dance, and when we’d broke, they’d throw us away -margaret atwood #darkrealism #dancerart #artistsofx #art #illustration #darkart #bookart

“You give and give and give. It’s like that old story of the fire—how it lights the room but consumes the wood. The brighter the flame, the faster it burns.” -east of eden what meaning do you get from this one ? #Angels #drawing #penart

"she wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes" -Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things #bookart #penart

“survival is the ability to swim in strange water … we must find the currents and patterns in these strange waters… if we’re to survive” Dune by Frank Herbert #dune #water #artwork

“You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.” Still I Rise, Maya Angelou #mayaangelou #Feminism #artwork

“My soul and yours are the same. You appear in me, I in you. We hide in each other.” — Rumi #soul #skeleton #art #rumi

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart… The truly great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

“Wherever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar…” The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë