"Im a really affectionate person

once you get past my 5 layers of shyness, awkwardness, fear, vague dislike, and loneliness."
--Unknown

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

--
Matthew Healy

“I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.” 

--
Stephen Dunn

Anyone who isn’t confused doesn’t really understand the situation.

--
Edward R. Murrow

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

--
Edgar Allan Poe

A little jazz bird

is the only kinda bird to be

If the clasp of your necklace locked into place on first try, the locket is backside front.

#Murphy's law

#10: All is still in the Darkness

and I can almost believe that dad and ma are asleep in their bedroom.

#9: Virtual hugs.

To those I miss very much in Melbourne.

#8: I'll do anything to be happy

--
Noah and the Whale, Blue skies are calling

#7: The spider web in ma's aloe vera plants is undaunted by my jet of water

(I'm back to my favourite haunt of watering the plants)

#6: I come up with all sorts of silly ways to make ma laugh

(And I gorge on ma's gajar ka halwa)

#5: “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

--
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

#4: Home is a sadness, not a place.

--

Jason Webley, Absynthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

#3: Daddy's songs sound just that much sweeter at home

#2: The stars are right side up again.

I'll miss the Southern Cross, tho.

#1: The only thing better than cooking with ma is to eat her food.

Or maybe 'tis the other way round.

#0: Meet my dragonette, Akarra

A welcome back present from Discordienne. Thank ye!

A frightfully good run of tetris.

#deliberately evasive. that's me.

For the greatest tragedy of them all / Is never to feel the burning light.

 -- Oscar Wilde on the story of Icarus.

I may be mad, I may be blind, i may be viciously unkind

 but I can can't still read what you're thinking.

--
Based on Why, Annie Lennox

Happy Birthday, Daddy

 Miss yoo.

Don't get too close

It's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
--
Demons, Imagine Dragons

One day I'll fly away

Fly fly away...
--
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge

My day at the MCG was a glorious excuse to make a lot of noise.

(and get myself a hoarse voice, while I'm at it)

I like my new bunnysuit*.

boo.

--
So nice so smart, Kimya Dawson

Four years.

Welcome back, sunshine!

#announcement at the train station

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

--
Hanlon's Razor

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

--
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

It's time to begin, isn't it?

I get a little bit bigger, 

but then I'll admit

I'm the same as I was

--

It's time, by Imagine Dragons

Shaking hands with a mannequin. Check.

#BucketList #HappyNewYear