| day 363 |

"The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone."

| day 362 |

"She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth – it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall and clears it for a different celebration."

| day 361 |

"How hard is it to paint a pretty girl?"

| day 360 |

"And she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood."

| day 359 |

"Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict."

| day 358 |

"Review my wishes for fair weather, 'cause I know if it clouds or rains or snows, you won't be there. How weak is that? Wish I was worth it to you."

| week fifty-one |

So...this is the last full week. Holy shit.

| day 357 |

"From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced."

| day 356 |

"I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me."

| day 355 |

"We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us."

| day 354 |

"There's a bird that nests inside you, sleeping underneath your skin. Yeah, when you open up your wings to speak, I wish you'd let me in."

| day 353 |

"But I thought that I should tell you, if it's not to late to say, I could put back all the pieces, they just might not fit the same. Nothing's worth losing, especially the chance to make it right."

| day 352 |

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

| day 351 |

"I had thought of all the things I had done, and couldn't undo. And I longed for a moments peace."

| week fifty |

T-minus 15 days...what?

| day 350 |

"Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting."

| day 349 |

"She danced. She sang. She took. She gave. She loved. She created. She dissented. She enlivened. She saw. She grew. She sweated. She changed. She learned. She laughed. She shed her skin. She bled on the pages of her days, she walked through walls, she lived with intention."

| day 348 |

"But the space between where you're smilin' high is where you'll find me if I get to go. The space between the bullets in our firefight is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you."

| day 347 |

"It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is tomorrow. Not today, but tomorrow. And then things will happen...wonderful things."

| day 346 |

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless."

| day 345 |

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."

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This idea was taken from the "Uglies" series by Scott Westerfeld. At age 16, everyone undergoes an operation to make them "pretty", giving them perfectly symmetrical features, perfect skin, big eyes, etc. - all for the sake of equality. In the book, the technology allowed the "uglies" to transform their faces on a digital screen to see what they would look like after the operation. I attempted to duplicate this...and found my right side is more beautiful!

| day 344 |

"She never slows down. She doesn't know why, but she knows that when she's all alone, feels like it's all coming down, she won't turn around. The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear, the tears will not stop raining down."

| week forty-nine |

I am quite literally in the final stretch. Has it really been a year? I have about 3 weeks left of an entire year of photos. I have no idea what I'm going to do when it's over.

Also, by the end of this, I will have a decent post to share with anyone who actually reads my blog.

Until then...

| day 343 |

"I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."

| day 342 |

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."

| day 341 |

"From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended."

| day 340 |

"If those cats could of dug me and my gangster ways, they would have hung up their guns and dug into their graves."

| day 339 |

"Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine - you taste so bitter and so sweet. Oh, I could drink a case of you darling and I would still be on my feet. Oh, I would still be on my feet."

| day 338 |

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice."

| day 337 |

"I got lost in the night without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me, I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness."

| week forty-eight |

Whoa. Less than a month!

| day 336 |

"We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. Then, even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework and continue to shine forever."

| day 335 |

"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."

| day 334 |

"She knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

| day 333 |

"I don't care if it hurts - I want to have control, I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul, I want you to notice when I'm not around. You're so fucking special. I wish I was special."