I LIE ALONE

“And my tongue stiffens into silence,

thin flames underneath my skin prickle and spark,

a rush of blood booms in my ears, and then my eyes go dark.”

~ Sappho ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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THE PERFORMANCE

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.

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GOT IT!

 

“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!”

 

~ Frederick Loewe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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ALL THAT COMES AFTER

 

“Without love and laughter there is no joy;

live amid love and laughter.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2017.

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JUST BEGINNING

 

“The end of laughter and soft lies,

the end of nights we tried to die,

this is the end.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Les grottes de Cougnac in France in June 2006.

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DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

 

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

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EACH DAY FROWNED

 

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain in England in June 2007.

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PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

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HIDDEN AWAY

 

“If you stay here, you become lost.

And no one can find you. I like lost.”

 

~ Ally Condie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

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