Talking won’t change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

– Melissa Marr – Ink Exchange

A strong wind was blowing and it felt really very cold and seemed so unfamiliar and bizarre. But the trees remembered me. They bowed gently in the breeze…and called me nearer, welcoming me.

– Debalina Haldar – Wrinkles in Memory

She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a sky full of stars, While a huge storm was destroying everything she had in her heart and ripping her soul apart.

– Akshay Vasu –

If … we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn’t our genetic purpose—to transmit DNA—be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

– Haruki Murakami – 1Q84

One day, it will all make sense, it will all be revealed. Until then, we learn to live and accept our shadows, our Déjà vu’s, our dreams, our intuition that takes us to places that our minds never conceived, our bodies only perceived and our souls gladly remembered.

Conversations and experiences amuse me, for I am experimenting with my feelings in ways that I can only do down here. Language makes up for a very interesting, yet bizarre way of putting thoughts into spoken form for the sound to move on in other peoples’ ears, but every language, every sound, every word carries with it a long history, a deep culture and the souls of the many people who have previously used it throughout the centuries.

Our hearts give us direction, hope and the passion to keep moving forward.. But what we do when they’re frozen, broken, torn apart by an unhealthy way of living is what gives us new strength to push forward or kills us completely. Deep inside, we feed the entities that empower the fight between our internal demons and angels. We feed them with our thoughts, our emotions, our self-talk and the external talk that we lower our shields to at times. Whether good or bad, this brings about a change internally and at times there isn’t much we can do to protect ourselves. At times, we need to let things be and go along with it.

Of course, we’re all worried, stressed, confused and lacking direction at times and we’re in the same way at peace, stable and walking in the right direction once we get things sorted. Give it some time, give it some light, give it some love. You’re not very far away.

– Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache –

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world

but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do

I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.

well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

– Rebecca Katherine Martin –